Ligonier Banner., Volume 54, Number 8A, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 April 1920 — Page 1

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' PECULIAR CASE. Ligonler Girl Has Extra Rib Removed ~ln South Bend Hospital and - ; is Recovering. ' An Xray examination disclased that Magdaline Green, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Green of this city, flad thirteen'ribs on one side and that the extra rib was giving her trouole. The superfulous stay was removed last Thufsday in a South Bend hospital and the patient is rapidly recoverlnx.j It is a most peculiar case and halalini‘ to surgeons. The regulation uumbe,r': of ribs is twelve on a side, but an extra one was given to Miss Green. She had been ailing for a loug time and her indisposition seemed to be due to the extra rib. : - -

oov. Goodrich Weakens, — In a letter to George W. Kichler, Churubusco attorney, Governcr. Goodrich says: : Foie ; :

“My Dear Geo. 1 have your letter of the 16th. The proposed change ir Lincoin Highway was only suggested upon the understanding that the authorities of both Noble and Allen county- would consent to strike out the Lincoln Highway from Forty Wayno to Ligonier and substitute therefor. a route from Fort Wayne to lLigonier through Kendallville. Since the authorities of the two counties have not agreed, ihe matter is at an end and the highway . will remain as established from Fort Wayne to Ligonier vii Churabnsco. - : - :

“1 have alwags appreciated your great kindness to me and want to show thut appreciation in .every way consistent with my duty to the public. With kindest personal regards, I am very truly yvours, o - .- “James P. Goodrich.” 7 - Working the Roads. ' = Farmers residing along the Lincoln Highway near Wolf Lake Fricay and Saturday turned out with their teams and did rome road repairing on their own -account. - The traffic over the thoroughfare = after the rains last week was so heavy that the road béd was cut 10 pieces and rendered almost impassable. The many new cars and, heavy trucks traveling' from Fort Wayne west did the damage. Asher Erdley was one of the volunteers who! put three teams to work scraping and leveling and with anything like good weather thé road will soon be in pret-. ty fair shape. 5 1 i Goes to Pen.. . Judge Wrigley in the Whitley circuit court sentented Olbia Carson to serve from one to three years in the state prison.on a plea of guilty to wife desertion.. Carson whose home was in Kokomo, last fall married Miss Georgia Slagle at South Whitley and two hours after the ceremony left for Chicago, ostensibly to rent a home :for himself and wife but in reality to meet a married woman from his home town of Kokomo, with whom he lived in the west until arrested and brought back. ~ Nichols Popular_Here. Chas. Nichols, of Howe, republican candidate for joint representative i well and popularly known in Ligonier and will get a big vote in this city and Perry—township.- Mr. Nichols is free from embarrassing alliances, is a good business man and will run best where he is best known. - e - A spirit of political fairness should give the nomination this year to LaGrange county ,and Mr: Nichols is being backed by Noble county repubicans who believe in fairness. =

Soak The Profiteers, Say AllL » Soldier relief organization will be discussed in the house of congress when Representative Green, of lowa, and Longworth, of Ohio,, republicans, will speak in support of the republican plan“of raising revenues for deferred cash payments by a tax on gross sales. At the same time the democrats plan to ask for the substitution of their proposal that the necessary. funds be raised by taxes on war profits. : 2 " L D, Straus Remains in Ligonier. - Elkahrt,” Goshen and Kendallville papers have carried ‘the report that Col. I. D. Straus had taken a home in Chicago and would remove to that cis.‘/finen seen Col. Straus said emphatically that there is no foundation for the story. He will nfaintain his - residence in Ligonier, visiting Chicago and other branches of the Straus _ Brothers Company as he has been doing in the past, but Ligonier is and - will remain his home.~ : . DT e —

, We Thank You. “We: thank vou”, wrote the thieves from Chicago who toughed Banker Mier for $BO cash and a number of checks -in that city some time ago. The paper and lodge receipts taken by the dip were returned to their owner with the brief acknowledgement of thanks. The robbery otcurred at the entrance of the Congress hotel.. McNagnys in Town. Phil McNagny, Columbia City attorney, was in mm‘xmrw accompli-, ;sie&br’hig b':i!adf 0 Weeks. Att:orneyi | Covals i Onfowrs. - . S 0 i e Re B R e

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PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE

Overalls $§2.25 at Carney's. Work Shirts $1.25 at Carney's Wool sold in Ligonier 25 years ago at 12 cents a pound. : Harold Slabaught, of Goshen, was here Friday calling on friends. . Friday, April 30th is the last day for filing mortgage exemptiona.

Mrs. John Summers came from Kendallville Friday to visit relatives. Dale Woodrauff of the postoffice spent Sunday with relatives in Avilla.

- Miss Eva Osborn was in Kendallville Friday a guest of Miss Agnes McCarty. - g : Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Vedder; of LaGrange, were week end visitors wiilr Ligounier friends. - . Miss Edna Patterson of Topeka has been spending the week with her aunt Mrs. Karl Hayden.’ c s Goshen is to have an elastic auto body factory. The bodies are designed for Maxwell cars. > ;

Sixteen members of the Topeka high school Bave graduated. Auburn has thirty-seven in the list. - Congressman Fair fleld will make a few speeches in Noble county. He appears at Cromwell May 7th. ’

"Miss Ella Ekstrand last weck visited Mrs. K. L. Wingard at South Bend and Mrs. Bert Johnson at Elkhart. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Culver and Geo. Switzer of South Bend spenit Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Culver. ~ Montaville Flowers, was booked to deliver a speech in city hall lasßnight n the interest of the Gen. Wood candidacy. - : . b,

E. "D. Stuckman was in the city from Kendallville Friday calling on ‘old friends. He is prospering in his business. . o .

Mrs: M. A. Benner who spent the winter with her daughter, Mrs. O. W. Christie has returned to her home in Syracuse. ¢ ! '

Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Crosby, of Orange, Massachusetts, have been guests of Miss Mary Jeanneret for the past week. ; Topeka had a real limb show the other night and acording to report the baldheads objected to the little bark left on the limbs.

Sherman Baker, proprietor of the White Star Cafe is suffering from erysipelas of the face. His condition is rapidly improving. ! The labor unions of Elkhart county will put a county ticket in the field, according to claims made by union leaders. ! :

Nappanee mail carriers are wearing overalls. They probably wear them to protect their clothing while digging themselves out of the mud. | Gov. Lowden, of Illinois, republican candidate for president, has been obliged to cancel his Indiana speaking dates on account of illngss.

Alice Mann, a sixteen year old Goshen girl, is under arrest at Elkhart charged with the theft of a number of silk dresses from Miss Francés Foster of that city. , - “The foundation for the new. dry kiln at the plant of the Auto Body company is being laid and-work on it will be rushed as soon as the weather will permit. ; : :

B. F. Haines was followed -to his home in Kendallville the other evening by two men in a car. During the night thieves entered the garage and stole parts of his automobile along with his tools. o

The body of Perry Wogaman supposed to have been drowned in Rock Run creek at Goshen last Tuesday night has not yet been feund although a mitten worn by the missing man was found in the creck. .

The ten-year-old son of David Zimmerman, in helping his father move a house at Kendallville Saturday was struck on the head and knocked unconscious by a part of the power windlass. "He is seriously injured. « William Ray, 19, & Chicagn colored youth, has confessed to the murder of Ruth Huff, 14, a white girl at Indianapolis, The murderer cut the child’s throat and threw the body into the river. * An attempt was made to lynch th culprit. : \ Overalls $2.25 at Carney’s. e Rollie Casselman of Auburn is in the DeKalb county jail unable to m--l nish $l,OOO bail. He robbed the W. H. Crane general store at Sedan. Part of the booty was left in the buggy he ‘used and this led to his arrest. 2 , ; ‘Smallest Car. = Probably the smallest automobile now in service is that one built by who operates a large auto repair shop there, Mr. Reuter has a young son, and he was prompted to build the miniature car by a request on the part of Reuter Junior some two years ago. The machine has only re-

- Saving discarded parts picked up in the repair shop over this period of time, Mr. Reuter has succeeded in preducing a very complete car which is operated by electric ‘motor and storage battery. There are parts of many makes of cars used in its contruction, neither Fords nor PierceArrows being neglected. - A statuette of ike well-kxown “Tim: to Re-Tire” boy, trade mark for Fisk Tires, has ‘been mounted on the rear of the car.

LIGONIER. NOBLE COUNTY,. INDIANA,. TUESDAY APRIL 27. 1920

| After Commission Merchants. Kansas City, Mo.; April 26— Elimination of the middieman with the sub. sequent increase of return to the producer_and decrease in price to the consumer was the object of a wheat farmers’ union decided upon here Monday night. Representatives of virtually every wheat ralsing community in the United States attending the National Wheat Growers' association meeting here voted to join such a union with agricultural leaders said would be the largest combine of farmers ever known. Seven whest growers were appointed to ogtline the organization. : e Plans of the organization include co-operative flour and milliyg asso--ciations where feasible, so that the iarm grain products might reach the consumer .in finished form. : {

* Three Hurt in Aute Spill. : Three people from South Bend; riding in a large Studebaker touring car, were badly injured and had a narrow escape from being killed when their auto skidded and turned over three times near New Paris. Speeding is attributed as the cause of the accident. Those injured were Alden Davis, 15, broken jaw and dislocated shoulder; Miss Grace Gardner, deep cut in knee; Mrs. Grace Blodgett, cut in forehead. S 0 b ‘4 Hoover Leads In Straw Vote, The Banner is in receipt of a eopv of the Daily Maroon, published by the 'students of Chicago University, which ‘shows Herbert: Hoover far in the lead in a faculty straw vote for president The total vote cast was 160" and of this number Mr. Hoover received 102, Lowden 22, Wood 12, Johnson 11, McAdoo 4, Debg 3, Wilson and Hughes cne vote each. Hoover seems to be the favorite with the college faculties as well as the student bodies. . . In_selecting a temporary chairman for the national convention in Chica€o the republicans may compromise on former Senator Beveridge, of Indiana. Beveridge was an ardent progressive but he is thought available be cause he is opposed to a league of nations. Almost any = pronounced enemy of President Wilson ought to be safistactory to the old line republi-

Coaching Corn Judging Team. _ Prof. Ralph Denny of the Wolf Lake schools is coaching the Noble county corn judging team which goes to Purdue in a couple of weeks to compete for state honors. <This team won the contest in Noble county and will be a strong contender in the contest Prot. Denny is an enthusiast along agricultural lines and is training his pupils to become real farmers. - Wagoner House Damaged. ; The residence of Thomas Wagoner on the North Side was damaged by fire to the amount of about $25 at a little after one o'clock Sundsy afternoon. A spark from the chimney started a blaze on the roof, but prompt action by neighbors put it out before the fire truck arrived although the fire laddies were not slow in responding. Wolf Lake Commencement. - Graduating éxercises of the Wolf Lake schools will u::tmm Saturday, May Bth; when a of twelve will receive their diplomas. The . commencement afddress will be delivered by Albert Stump, of Indianapolis. The Wolf Lake schools have reached a high standard of excellence under the instruction of Prof, Rnlph Denny. : Body Home Frem France. The body of Corp. Fravel E. Alleman, the first Goshen soldier to lose his life in France, will be brought to Goshen for burial. The body will arrive at the army pier at Hoboken, "N. J., on April 29, according to information received from the war department by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alleman, his parents. g -

Is Oldest Physlcian. - Dr. F. C. Maloney, Avilla. oldest practicing physician in Noble county, is in failing health. He began practicing medicine in Cromwell fifty-four vears ago. Two years later he went to Avilla. - : Log Schoolhouse Survives. Indiana has 8,038 school houses. J. S. Hubbard, deputy state superintendent of public instruction has computed, Of that number 3,107 are of brick; 3,454 frame; 90 stone; 85 cement and 2 log." - ; R Is Hurt in Accldent. % ~Marjorie Riddle, twelve years old, ‘daughter o £ Mr. and Mrs. Riddle, of near Kendallville, was seriously -inJured when the car in which she was riding with her parents was struck by a truck. 3 : : . In Peculiar Pesition. While Herbert Hoover is running for president on the rpublican ticket hé already has 37 democratic delemmfiw ‘him and none of the can persuasion. { ~lndianapolis, according to the cennearly 36 per cent.' This is a fine showing. =~ = Sl g fl oo el e e

BUSINESS POISE LIFTING OF rln:imn‘ AND EX. PRESS ENBARGOES RELIEVES SITUATION WHICH GREW Alarming : GASOLENE FAMINE EASED UP Freight and Eipnm thpmntn Heavy and Much Merchandise Moving by . Big Trucks

Business men of Ligonier breathe since the lifting of the freight and express embargoes. : : Selig Brothers, whose pastures and barnes were glutted with live stock have felt the relief. They shipped seven cars of stock last week. Shipments were made from Albion; Millersburg Foraker, and other points. Shobe & Shobe are now in position to resume shipping horses and they -are buying again. . . . ; ' Persons who use the express company are pursuing their usual business activities.

The merchants the receiving the counsignments freight held up for two weeks and. the business outlook is brighter. / ' i During the embargo cansed by the strike shippers took advantage of auto truck opportunity and many tons of merchandise passed over the country highways. n o Even the gasolene shortage will be a thing of the past. The dealers still restrict the sale to three gallons to a customer. Irvin Kduffman will continue to fill the tanks as long as his supply lasts. 5 : Manufacturers, whose warehouses have been clogged with finished products are finding a slow outler. Some -of the factories are becoming crippled for a lack of raw materials, but it is Qelieved -this situation will soon be relieved. = : z

: D. B. Drain Has Birthday. ~ Daniel B. Drain reached his three scored and ten Sunday, relatives and friends to thec number of fifteen assembled at the Drain residence on Pigeon street and celebrated the event with a big family dinuer. Mrs. Mary Calbeck and Harry Drain. and family came from South Bend aad joined Mrs. Jénnie Drain, Mel Draia and family and Ed Smith and family in making away with a well laden table of delicacies. Daniel B. was as happy as & ‘boy with his first pair of red-top boots. He carries his 70 years very lightiv Testing the Motor. e ~ C.'L. Curtis drove his car through from Chicago Sunday and brought a ‘motor for his launch. The weather beIng unfavorable for outdoor activities Mr. Curtis atached the motor to a bath tub at the Bailey hotel in order to test it out. Ashton Sedgwick, who was In the tub, claimed the vibration of the engine was so pronounced that it made him seasick. The new fangled driver will be attached to a boat some time during the summer.

' -Scovils Coming Home. George G. Scovil writes from Ontario, California, under date of April 21 as follows: e Discontinue mailing Banner ‘to me until further notice. We leave here April 28 in our Ford boat for homel and expect to cover the distance of 2,600 miles in 26 days if our Henry holds out” : | Mr. Scovil has been in California about a year and he is bringing his bride with him to the land of his:birth. Y . P ——————— 3 1 } Dr. Balley Married. @ ~'Dr. Olin Bailey and Miss Hazel Stevens of Topeka were married April 19, at Goshen. Dr. Bailey is a prosperous young dentist at Topeka, and the young couple expect to make their home there. after a short trip. The doctor is well known in Ligonier. |

Coco Cola Goes Up. - Coco Cola has advanced from $1.65 wholesale to $2.00 the gallon and the retail price has been advanced to 7 cents the glass. There are about 150 glasses to the gallon it is claimed. Interchurch Drive On. The drive of the Interchurch World Movement opened Sunday and will last through the week. Rev. G. F. Hubbartt is the financial campaign director for Noble county. F 5.. » —,——*—’- 2 a t Many young people of Ligonier attended a social dance at Cromwell Thursday evening. It was. a very pleasant party and highly enjoyed. - See the thrilling rescue of -a thoroughbred racer from a blazing barn by -a slip of a girl. “In Old Kentucky” Thursday and Friday. Shows at 7:1 sand 9:00. Adm. 15¢, 20¢, 30c. . SRR RRSSR SR STR 1 e R D R

Overalls §2.35 at Carney's. - - Lyon & Greenleaf are paying $3.75 for number 1 wheat. L “In Old Ketucky” at Crystal, Thursday and Friday. : R Miss Dessie Gordon spent Sunday in Topeka with friends. : et Lisle Gilbert and Robert Grant were Scuth Bend visitors Sunday. . . Haryey Yoder of Nappaner was a Sunday guest of Miss Denalda Edy. The state democratic convention wili be held in Indiasapolis May 1% and 20. Seed potatoes are being sold in Ligonier and vicinity at §7 & Gushel George Bryan and Raymoad . Miller are in Detroit after Ford cars. - Messrs Bidwell and Hardenbrook, of Albion were guesis Sunday of F. E Weir. : ;

Miss Myrile Fry visited her parents in Kenddllville the latter part of the week. ; : a Miss Jeraldine Fish, of South Bend, was & week end guest of Miss Alta Yeéager. Raymoenud R Stack and Nora E. Conrad, of Ligouier are newleyweds. They will make their home in this city. THe loss to the Hawks. Furniture company by the recent fire at Goshen was adjusted at $30500 ’

-Harold Bechtel, who died of scarlet fever in Youngstown, Ohio, mentioned in the Banner, wasdorn in Albion May 10, 1894 : e :

Mrs. H. C. Ryan is quite il and her mother Mrs. C. G. Holycross was called to the Ryan home west of this city from Kendallville. S Mrs. Myron Baker has been discharged from an Elkhart hospital and is now at home with prospects of a comlete and speedy recovery. i

~For rent, modern house of seven rooms on corner McLean and Jackaon streets. Olive Galbreath Ka2t

_ Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Vedder, who spent a week with Mr. and Mrs. 8. C Sackett returned home to LaGrange Sunday - : . o : Mrs. C. M. Schiotterback continues in very poor health. Her fractured arm_ is giving her a great deal of trouble. - . e Messrs and Mesdames James Casey aud William Shaub, of Auburn, wers ounday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Q. W. Brown, = ‘ : ' M. A. Cotherman and son Douald visited Goshen and Wawasee Sunday. They report the Solomon’s creek road in fah condition. : “y The Harry Haller and Willard Price families came from their new home near Spencerville and spent Sunday with old friends. Pl

Fred Green visited his daughter Magdeline in a South Bend hospital Sunday and found her resting easy. Her mother is with her. S ?

Mr. and Mrs. Sanger Smith are rejoicing - over the advent of a new daughter bo: 2 Sun_dayinlgm. Dr. Black reports the little lady as lusty and robust. = : ; -

Guy Hieber is in Plymouth to attend the graduating exercises of the schools there, will arrrvie home Wednesday. He left his studio in charge of Miss Pearl Bordner.

Ticket Agént Snyder says freight traffic on the N .Y. " railway 1s nearly normal and taht .many trains the mioving. Station Agent Urich has lifted the freight embargo in Ligonier. H. A. Renkenberger, cousin of Ligonier’s efficient school superinjendent soid twelve bushels of potatoes im Kendallville Saturday for 360. He might have received 50 cents more a bushel in Ligonier. . i

‘The official real estate transfers show the sale by Albert Weaver to Wesley B. Mallop a lot in Wellman's addition and Sarah E. Treash to Irvin Kauffman lots 88 ond 87 in the original plat Ligonier. See the great Kentucky horse race, with scores of riders galloping madly over the course, and a girl jockey winning by a nose.. It's a real race and just as intensely exciting. At Crystal, Thursday and Friday. R Miss Jennie Sisterhen, of Detroit.

and brother Morris,.of Toledo, visited their parents Mr. and Mrs. Georg: Sisterhen Sunday. Miss Sisterhen i rapidly regaining her: health after a serious surgical operation. - . Mrs. Otis C. Butt who has been

quite ill ‘at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hinderer for the past. four weeks le’- Monday for the Lutheran Hospital at Fort

To Occupy House fl Horrors. Fred Starr’s big auto truck Monday toBk the household effects of A. F. Fitzhugh to Lawton, Michigan, Monday and placed thegf® in the Tabor house where the body of Maude Tabor was-found after lying in the cellar for nearly three years. . Mr. Fitzhugh who had been living on a farm near Kimmeil says he has no fear of ghosts and that he will occupy four rooms of the dwelling while Mrs. Tabor lives in the other parly Mrs. Fitzhugh died somé McDaniel Buys Propeng;d ' ~_Frank McDaniel has purch the ‘McLean street llt{';wrt! of Mrs. J. L. Graham recently vacated by M..A ‘Hutohison and will oceupy it as his

~ Yery Pertinen Question. ‘The Columbia City Post propounds & very pertinent question: S - What has become of that peace resolution which was passed by the house of representatives with a ‘whoop and a rush- It was understood that it would be taken up immediatély by the senate and pu! through that body without delay. The resolution was expected to bring aboul a state of peace between th: United States and Germany, and the: there were a lot of conditions as tthe Versailles treaty which the resolution was expected to make stick as to Germany, but for somo reason there are men in this country who pretend to say thaf the resolution could not make anything stick It is feared, however, that in this case the Germans might regard the resolution as a “mere scrap of paper.” Anywmy: the legal engineers of the senate seem to be in a state -of inactivity. They are not urging the passage of the resolution by which they are going to briug about peace. o ] | Lo Qe Benatn a 0 The golf scason wil open within a week and Ligonier enthusiasts arc looking forward to the event with great anticipations. . e ‘ The Wawasee Golf club haa a number of members in this gity and a meeting of the or:_nnluuo&‘ soon be held here to m:? out a program for the summer. 2 s S The meeting will be presided over by President Remy. Attorney Otis But: Is secretary. _ : ; e J. .B Schutt and Tom Jeanneret aré ative members of the club and they are aiming to enlist the interest of Ligonier business men. Maurice Bru baker, Charles Simmons, Graliam Lyon and Hugh Hutchison are golfers

old Resident Here.

B. H. Biliman who voted for Samue) J. Tilden in 1876 just beforc leaving for Texas, is here on a visit with his brother, J. C. Bilman. This I 8 the first visit the Texan has made to Ligovier in 18 years and he notes many changes. Mr. Billman, who is unmarried, sold his extensive interests in the south-west about a year ago and since that time has been dividing Lis time between Galveston and Fort Worth He says if the climate changes to a more tropical temper he may linger in Indiana, otherwise he will point his nose towards the setting sun. - 4 Death of Howard Taylor. James Taylor Thursday recefved word -of the death of his nephew, Howard Taylor, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs John Taylor at Helmar. Death was caused by measles. A sister is alsc dangerously ill with the disease. The ‘Taylor family formerly resided if Ligonier and has many relatives_here among the Taylor and Bowen families. Howard Taylor was a most exemplary boy and was very popular in the little town where he resided. The remains were buried in Kendallville

Airplane in Town. - ‘ “The Donald Whisler airplane flew from Elkhart to Ligonier Sunday afternoon under the pilotship of Capt. Lambert and made a landing in a field near the Frank Wood residence. The flight Monday was scheduled for Marijon. e | Capt Lambert is said to have been a daring aviator in the war and is credited with bringing down his share of German planes. . The big flier attracted a good many spectators during its brief stop in Ligonier. ' - : e e s i : Passing of Big Woods. | ~ The Wawaka correspondent says the big woods (well known sugar camp) on the former Stansbury farm now owned by John Reese, will soon be a thing of the past, Mr. Reese having sold all the timber to the Moore Lumber company of Cromwell. The firm is getting out the logs with a caterpillar tracter which skids them with sureness and ro; idity that is marvel!ons to the road w ere two trucks soon -get them away. 2 e

Mrs. Kann Is SL. Isaac, Sig and Julius Kann went to Chicago Sunday to assist the observance of their mother’s eighty-first birthday anniversary. Mrs. Kann’s health is very good and she retains her mental faculties to a marked degree for one of her age. For many years she resided in Ligonier. Final Bowling Mateh. Tonight at the Oyler alleys occurs the final bowling matches betweex the Green and Williams teams. These teams have had many contesis through the winter and the windup of the bowling season tonight gives promise of being the hardest contest of all. - Red Cross Meeting. : . There will be an all day seseion of the Red Cross Aid Society at city hall ting and lining. Donations of cash and “In Old Kentucky,” with Anita Stewart in a master production, the 5 & e. Crystal T day and 15c. 20c. 30c. *l!@;hwl@'

TUESDAY ' AY

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- BIG ORGANIZATION FORMED, - F . ; : “. » Lincoln Highway Improvement Asso- - eclation to Comprise of Ilive -~ Theusand Members. - Thursday evening, April 29, the second big meeting of the Lincoln Highwly Improvement association will be hild - at the Wolf Lake town hall ince the last meeting many new nembers have been added and the alm -~ to increase the membership to ‘'at least 5,000, - Residents of Noble, Whit- ¥ and Allen counties are joining and the organization will be In position to do things when the time comes to act. Now that the well laid plans of certain interests to change the route of the Lincoln Highway by the elimination of the Ligonier-Fort Wayne branch have been abandoned the new organization proposeés to see to it that this branch secures proper consideration from the state highwar commisaon. ne The Lincoln Highway is the main market - road and has been o recognized by the federal and state governments and it is the duty of the commission to hard surface it before the improvement of any other road.

This is no more than right and just ‘and all friends of the great highway ask fairness. ‘ What . the Lincoln Highway Improvement Association demands s fustice at the hands of the state road soard and the determined members will countenance nothing less. Compared to the Lincoln Highway ill “ether -state roads mean local stretches. : : ‘The Blazed Trail runs from Toledo to Ligonier while the Lincoln Highway runs from New York to San Franisco. ~ Mecting the Oddfellows. Kendallville Odd Fellows will entertain tomorrow Wednesday evening visiting members from Auburn, Garrett, Albion, Ligonier and South Mil. ford, when a class of thirty will receive the royal purple degree Thero will be fifteen tandidates from Alblon twelve from Ligonier and three from Kendallville. The degree teams :of Garrett, South Milford and this ecity v | do the work. The Rebekabs will s::7é a banquet at 9 o'clock. | Frelght Cars Short. e While the embargo on freight has beén lifted a.shortage of cars and the congestion of freight makes it almost impossibie to get shipments out of Ligonier. Lyon & Greenleaf capect to commence the shipment of flour in a few day: and ‘hope to be able to resume operations at the mill soon. : The Ligonier -Refrigerator Co. trucked a car load of refrigerators to Cromwell Friday and shipped over the 2 &0

Senator John Reed got his in Missouri when the democrats turned him down as a delegate to the national convention and passed resolutions favoring the league of nations. Reed ‘3 opposéd everything the people ~anted and his official career’ {s about «inddd. The domocrats weed out their ‘'nisrepresentatives. Now sec what the republicans of Indiana do to Jim Watson, another political incorrigible. '~ Mixed Head Lines. In Friday's issue of the Banner the headings over the two leading articles were transposed. The lines which should have gone over the Cohran road article were placed over the death notice of. Allen Woodruff and vle&\ aversa. As every inhabitant of the! city called attention to the error it may be concluded that the Banner is pretty generally read. ; . :

‘Mrs. Ralph Wible living near Ken< dallville successfully underwent a Caeserian operation at Lakeside hospital Friday night performed by Drs. H. A. Duemling of Fort Wayne and H. 0. Williams, and is now the pround mother of a ten-pound son. Her sister Mrs. Ed Kennel underwent a similar operation a few years ago. : - Indiana Battle Ground. Indiana is considered the pivotal state by the republican candidates for president, so Johnson, Wood, Harding and Lowden are all in the state to campaign until Monday night. Tuesday the primary will be held. .

First Chicken Show. The first meeting of the Noble County Poultry Association was held in Albion Monday. Prof. Jones, of Purdue was advertised as a feature with motion picture films showing how to treat the chicks. ' Goes to Commission. ~ The controversy between the Cemtrzl Union Telephone Co. at Kendallyilie and the farmer subscribers has been appealed to the state utilities commission for decision. The trouble is over a raise in service rates. . : ‘Women to Organise. At Kendallville a woman’s auxiliary to the American Legion will be or-’ %mw eey L sR R Ls R L A R e I S