Ligonier Banner., Volume 54, Number 36B, Ligonier, Noble County, 12 November 1920 — Page 1

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£2.00 PER YEAR

3GHOOLS GRIPPLED LACK OF FUNDS

PERRY SCHOOL TOWNSIIIP BRIOLE WITH HOPE ONLY IN PATRIUTIC : - GITIZENS '

SPARTA ANB NGBLE SAME BOAT

State Tax Commission Hesponsible For Genfusion All Uver Indiana Ia Beheel Malters o

Sparta is net the only sownship in Noble ecunty whieh s in financlal straits. Perry township has but §7OO in her sehool fund to oprale the eentralised sehool wutil January st 194d1. i

After dismiiesing the Kimmell achool Monday it is wnderstood that Trustee Kiser, of Bparta townsh!p, has made sclie ‘sort of arrangement with the seachers and ha k drivers to eontinue their labors and postpone drawing their pay uutil the next insetallment of the sekool fuud ¢omes in wWhen they will be paid in full } Trustes Schlotterbagk, of Perry sewnship, must have rellef or the township sehool will soom have (o ‘slose. Noble townehip isa in the same plight and the trustee is making frantie efforts to dig out of the hole he was plased in when the state board ot Wz eommissioners eut the sehool levies in the townships in half. - Had Interest rates im the bankas not gone wp from € to. 7 per eent all ‘might have been well. The state laws bar the townsh!p trustees from paying ‘ever § per eent interest on loans and the banks will loan no more money at that rate. In fact the Mier State Bank, whieh has a number of these loans now due are calling for a settiement and threaten suits if the elaime are aet liquidated. Perry township -has $7,350 of the Misr Staté Bank money, loaned at € ;@A eent, and now the money is_demanded. Trustee Bchlotterback has been munabdble to refund the-loan at ¢ per eent in compliance with the law and he is placed lin & very embarrassing position. He is willing to advanee $l,OOO of his private money aund fesls that seven or eight other eitizens of the township should do the same and purchase the Mier Bank loan and hold it until the Janwary funds are available. Otherwise the township sehool will have to close unless some satisfactory arrangement ean be made with the teachers, hack drivers and Janitor. : ~ Perry township eertainly has eight men patriotie enough to advance $l,900 each to relieve this unpleasant situation. It would be next to a calamity to have the scholara of any township deprived of their schooling. After January lst the trustees can meet the situation with bond issues until sutfielent tax levies are made to meet added requirements. ] Plaeing the blame on the state tax eommission, where it belongs, will render mo relief in the present dilemma. What must bs forthcoming is eash. Let those who would render velief step forward. !

Marion Home C(losed.

The Marion soldiers home has been elosed as that kind of an institution and will .be eonverted into a government hospital. Inmates of the home were transferred to Dayton, Ohlo. Danville, 111, and Milwaukee, Wis., A. B. Crampton, formerly of Elkhart and Goshen, the home governor, has been sent to Milwaukee.

Yo Be Tried in New York.

Dr. Bdward A. Rumely of New York formerly of Laporte will be. tried in New York on & charge of eonspiracy filed in 1918. Dr. Rumely it is alleged represented the formér German kaiser as publisher and owner of the New York Bvening Mail during the war. The trial started Monday. day. ; M. L. Shearer Reappointed. The eounty board of education of Blkhart eounty in session Monday afternoon, reappointed M. L. Shearer as eounty .agricultural agent to serve tori one year starting Jan. 1, 1921. The salary is $2,480 per annum. Mr. Shearer is a son of Louix Shearere of Ligonier and a graduate of Purdue. | The condition of Tom Wagoner, the well known blacksmith, who had to undergo & second operation in an Elkhart hospital, is greatly improved ‘and expects to leave the institution Saturday. ; : :

- The sewer at the Trittipoo sehool failed to carry off the water and schodl was dismissed last Monday The sewer has-been lengthened about §OO foot. : £ - M’You are goin to see “Humoresque” aext Tuesday or Wednesday at Crystal The finest picture ever seresned mno oue can mies it T

The digpnicr Banner,

| FIERCE STRUGGLE COMING Manufasturers Deslaring For the . Open Shep tn Midwest To Preel- ! " pitate Crises

A fierce struggle betwean organized capital and organized labor will be waged during the winter and coal heads will be neoessary to avert a calamity, = e '

The forerunner of coming trouble s indicated In the following press dispatch from Chicago: - "Rumblings of impending industrial war were heard 1o Chigago and the midwest as employers and uniop mem prepared for'a clash over the elesed shop proposition. Employers of lilinois went om regord recently as favoring the open shop. which gives nonunion men the right to work aloungside of organised labor, when the Illinois Manufaeturers” association, in a formal resolu-

tion, eadorsed the open shop and promiscd aid to any of its members vwho started a figt aga'nst the closed sbop. ‘ L "Reports reaching laber federation headquarters here from other industrial centers !n the middle west ind!cate employers are contemplating taking similar action as that taken by the

Illinois Manufacturers’ assoclation. Those in touch with the labor situation' hold that the fight between employers and labor will ¢ome to & head this winter, pointing (o the ‘aet that the supply of labor is now greater than the demand and that this eond!-

tion makes a e¢lash advantageous for the employers. : X “John Fitspatrick president of the Chicago Federation of Labor and reeognised leader of liberal labor foreces in the middle west, today joined other trade wuwnionists in expressing himself as expecting an open shop fight this winter. Fitapatrick said labor was prepared to go the limit in fighting any attempt to install the open shop.”" o - -

Child Swallows Brass Chaln, The Wawaka correspondent has the following account of & peeullar aecident. "~ “Little Robert Lower four-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lower of the Randolph farm, while playing with a small brass chain two inches and a half long swallowed it. The extremely alarmed parents on thé advice of thelr local physician took the child to Klkhart to Dr. Fleming who used the X-Ray. Dr. Fleming assured the anxious parents thatt he chain was not lodged in him and that no bad results would follow. Being brass it was feared that ulcers of the stomach might develop and it the .chain had been located in the little one's stomach an immediate operation would have had to follow.

Blg Catch.

8. W. Hooper, J. M. Trebe, C. W. Woodcock and Dr. Hershey of Garrett who were accompanied by KEKugene Holloway and son Burdette, of Byracuse as guides, scored the biggest flish eatch of the season at Lake Wawasee. :

They ecaught 11 bass and 4 pike, The largest bass was 20 inches long and welghed ¢ pounds. The largest pike weighed 10 pounds. An artificial bait being manufactured in Garrett was used. These fish weighed a total of 62 pounds an average of more than 4 pound each. s

Red Cross Sunday.

Next Sunday will be observed as Red Cross Sunday in all the churches of the Lake Division. This includes Indiana. = The ministers of all the churches the expected to deliver special sermons. :

Observante of Red Cross Sunday is expected to give great impetus to the Fourth Rool Coll, Nov. 11. Armistice Day, to Nov. 25, Thanksgiving day, inclusive, during which 1,600,000 members will be sought in Ohio, Indiana cnd Kentueky. 4 *® |

' Will Be Big Attendanece. Basketball fans of Ligonier will have great entertainment at the high school gym tonight when the Kendalls ville boys and bgirls teams contest with Ligonier teams. The double header game is the big attraction of the week. The advance.sale of tickets has been large. 1 Pald B ‘ ~ Issae H. Buss, of Sedan, struek by the second section of the New York Central’s Twentieth Century Limitel train at the Sedan crossing near Kendallville on July 7 and seriously injured has settled his claim against the eompany for $350. :

Much Hog Colera. Five 200-pound hogs are dead at the Koseiusko county poor farm the result of cholera. One farmer residing south of aWrsaw lost 50 hogs as 3 result of the disease. Syracuse Hotel Sold. ~ The @rand hotel at Syracuse has been purchased of Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Hire of Syracuse by Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Mishler of Orland, who will eonduct it. iy i e O . Irvin Jacobs of the Straus Brothers company has been in Chicago this woek oa tmportaat bysiness. 1

LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY NOVEMB R 12, 1920

The wagon, stolen from the Railway Express company at Fort Wayhe a week ago Sunday, was found along with missing harness securely hidden in the centre of & deep woods on the Walter Wolf place near the Louls McCiellan farm south east of Diamond lake. The vehicle was way bagk of any highway and finding it without as«

sistanee would have been nlrd; acelidental. Marshal Showalter, however, bhad the asilstance of Walter Dunlap colored, the thief who at the aame time took & horse and harness. The baroess was In the wagon along with ® barrel of horse feed. Dunlap was returned bere from the Fort Wayne jall after agreding to disclose the loeation of the stolen property. He was taken back to the Allen eounty jall for trial end the express wagom was shipped home from Kimmell

Farmers Buy Bogus Steeks.

It 1 estimated that the farmers and other residents of Noble eounty last year purchased bogus or stocks of doubtful value to the amount of $360.000. While the state is supposed to have a “blue sky law” to protect irnocent purchasers of wild eat stocks and bonds the law seems to be inoperative. Wild cat corporations have been organized in Indians as well as many other states for the sole purpose of separating e¢itisens from their money. A great scheme has been successfully worked to exchange bogus stock for Liberty Bonds om the representation that the spurious paper ofefrs a much higher dividend return. The wildcat corporations have been organized solely as stoek selling scheimnes. - :

The Indians legislature will eomvene In January. There are. nine democrats in the senate and elven in the house. Any bill that has the sanction of the leaders can be put through and no doubt an effort will be made to hold the majority 1n check. There is likely to be a big fight over amendments to the present tax law. : : ]

Mrs. Anna Snyder; of Garrett, reported to the ploice that a woman whom she had employed to care for her children had robbed her of all her clothing and everything else that

she could carry away. Mrs. Snyder's husband not long ago deserted her. and she is trying to support fowr small ¢hildren. e

Councilman W. 8. Murphy of Kendallville is busy trying to find someone who wished to start a menagerie in Kendallville and ssid he was able to make one of the first entries in the specimen of a real live alligator sent to him from his brother-in-law, W. H. Pillsbury of Sumner, Fla. The alligator meatured about three and a half feet in length. '

The hardware store of Vanrs & Hoover of Middlebury was entered by burglars Sunday night and a Stevens 23 calibre rifle valued at about. §lB was taken. The thieves got into the building by smashing the large plate glass window worth $2OO. There was no insurance and there is no clue to the identity of the culprits.

Kendaliville Has Celebration.

Thursday, Armistice Day, was eelebrated in Kendallville under the auspices. of the American Legion. All business suspended at 11 o'cloek, the schools were diamissed and a big parade was one of the attractive features. The armistice was signed ‘Nov. 11, 1918, and fighting ecased at 11 o'cloek American time. |

A frantic mother at Kendallville, had the polic> hunting for Laßonszo Rollins, &£7°¢ 5 who strayed ml from hom> i 5~ ¢ty and was lost for five horrs. The av- age Ligonier youth of (=t 23> woul. find his own way home. B |

Reports from a few points in the U. 8. state that the democrats are claiming fraund. Well, that's about all that is left for them to elaim.—Columbia City Post. : . G

Leroy Hoffman, formerly of Millersburg, has been appointed agricultural agent of Jay eounty. -

_Little Boy Diles. - Richard, aged two, son of Mr. and ‘Mrs. Charles Helmuth is dead at Kendallville of cholera infantum. | - Smith Brothers Sale. ~ Smith Brothers will have a publie sale on the Silburn farm on the Lincoln Highway two and one-half miles west of Ligonier Wednesday, November, 17, beginning at 10 o’elock in the morning, two head horses, nine head catlte, twenty-three head hogs, thirty head sheep, ten dosen chickén, much farm machinery, twelve tons clover hay, 1,200 bushels corn in erid, 160 shocks corn in field. Lunch will be served on the ground. Frapk Lickey is the auctioneer ‘and Harvey Hoak

Stolen Wagen Found

Twenty Out of 150,

Woman is Bobbed. °

Has Big Aligator.

Hardware Store Rebbed.

Child Lost and Found.

All That is Left

Named County Agent.

< Women Keep s Searet. : " (By United Press) - Yoneall, Ore. Nov. 11-Women gan keep & searet! - / Five men of this gity who belleved they were going to be elected mayor and councilmen can testify to that ~ These men were nominated for the ity offices without opposition. ‘ The women held a secret meeting and decided that the mne hadn't been administering muneipal affalrs properly. ; g

They shose one of their number for mayor and four more to eomplete the “petticoat” government, quietly passed the word, and the men didn't know what had happened until the votes ware eounted and learned that the fellowing had been elected: , L Mayor-—Mirs. Mary Bart ' Members of the eouneil—Mrse. Berniees Wilson, Mrs. Jennie D. Lasswell, Mrs. Nettie Manpan, Mrs. Edith B, Thompson. »

Neble County’s Ousis.

Kendallville seems to be the oasis of Noble county. The Kendallvilie News Sun says: ’ ; “William Kline, who has appeared la the city police court more times than he sald he could remember himself, was brought before Mayor Brouse again this morning charged with :}nblie Intoxication and after pleading guilty to the charge was assessed a tine of $§ and a cost amounting to slé which he paid. Kline has served sentences ‘at the penal farm three different times for intoxication.

Death of Mrs. Berick.

Mre. J. D. Rerick, aged about sixty years a former - resident of Kendallville and well known throughout this county .died at her home {n LaGrange Sunday morning following an {llness of over two years. For the past two months she had been unconscious: For many weeks Mr, Rerick who has also been in ill healith had been ¢omnstantly at her bedside. The cause of he -death is undetermined. Surviving relatives imelude her husband and a som, Lee. o .

Child Gets Polsoned Cheese.

The dog poisoner operating in Columbia City was plying his trade to almost serious results the other day, when a five year old child found s piece of poho Upon arriving home the child showed the cheese to her mother, who discovered it ¢overed with poison.

Newlyweds of Sparta.

On Friday, November §, at the M. E. parsonage in Albion Gary Elijah Iden and Sylvia Hull were pronounced man and wife, Rev. J. H. Lemkau tieing the nuptial knot. The groom resides at Cromwell and the bride at Kimmell, and are popular in their communities..—New Era. -

Young People Married.

George Exley, Toledo, Ohio, and Ora Donelda Eddy, Ligonier, Ind, were united in marriage at the M. E., parsonage in Albion, Nov. 8. Rev. J. H. Lemkau, officiating. The bride had fors ome time been a clerk in the Stansbury stores and the groom is prominent in Toledo.-

Will Go On Farm.

George Cuppy, a former big league ball player who for some years has eonducted a cigar store in Elkhart will locate on a farm east of Ligonier. Mr. Cuppy says his health has not been good and he proposes to erect a modern bungalow on a fifteen acre tract of ground and live the simple lite. :

Shoots Brother.

‘Vietor Shutt of near Garrett was accidentally shot and probably fatally wounded Saturady by .his brother John who was shooting at sparrows with a .22 target rifle. The bullet passed through the right side of the spinal column and penetrated the young man's liver. . : |

Wrestler Has Broken Leg.

In a wrestling match at the Albion Opera house Wednesday night between Ink Moore, of Albion and« John Dull, of Kimmell, the latter recelved a broken leg, which gave the decision to Moore.

Thre¢ More Years.

' Seeretary of the Treasury Houston declares that the nation faces for a period of at least three years a continuation of its annual tax bill of four billion dollars. !

President Wilson has begun work on his annual message to congress which will be transmitted either on the opening day of the next session, on Dee. 6th or on the day following.

TURKEY DINNER ; S+ merved at PHILADEPHIA CAFE . . SUNDAY NOV. 4 - Full line of Hollday Candies

. Janie Taylor granddaughter of Dr. Adam Gants and popularly known in Ligonier where she spent several summers; has entered the movies in the city of Baltimore under direction of Marie Dressler, the famous actress. Miss Taylor has been in the east for a souple of years. :

| R Harry Gale. of the Weaver stobe, was in Goshea Thursday taking [o the sights, L Mrs. Harry Mayfleid and children are hom:uSom & visit with relatives in Nappanef. . Alnsworth Bassett ls now delivering milk to all customers in-Ligonlcr who use the flaid . ; "~ Mrs. Frank Zimmerman eame home from Chicago Thursday. She had boen visiting her son Francis. Robert Randolph Lower, of near Wawaka 1s In thee ity visiting Lls grandfather O. F. Randolph. : - .Shobe & Shobe shipped a car load of horses to tbe¢ market Wadnesday. Among the lot was a fine pacing horse. Dwey LaCount bas securel a good position iln a Cromwell garags and moved his tamily from Ligcnicr to that town. = :

Alvin Kemp has moved his family from Topeka to Ligonfer aud occupies the Tyler house cormer Seiovumd and Grard streets. -

Indiana has one automobtle to every thirteen people. lowa heads the list of states with one buzs wagon to every nipe {nhabitants. i

Ceryl Gorsuch {s suffering from a fractured foot the result ot a team running away on his father's farm near Cromwell. s

~ Sacks’ jazz orchestra the samae organization furnishing music for the Ligonier Hallowe'en celebration, will play at Cromwell Thanksgiving even- . : - Henry Hire has late advives from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that a democratis road supervisor was .elected there. He has telegraphed to have the report verified. :

The W. R. C. held their yearly inspection at G. A. R. hall Monday evening. Mrs. Charles Bryner as inspector About 40 members enjoyed the ¢ o'clock dinner.

There 18 a well equipped shoe shining parlor !n connection with the B. F. Wilkinson shoe repair cthop. Mr. Wilkinson 18 adding & shoe finishing machine.

It seems the officers of Whitley county came over to Investigate the Kimmell burglaries. One arrest was made at Cromwell in connection with the Kimmell stealing but the prisomer established hls innocence. ' The litle a;a'.! - qul'l"le ai g of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin D. Robinson was buried in the Sparta cemetery Monday. The Ribinson tfamily resides near the Crothers farm. -

Robert E., aged one year and § months, little son of Mr. and Mrs. George Slusser residing on the North Side in this city, was buried Wednesday in the Sparta cemetery, the funeral services being conducted at the Sparta Christian church.

Tax Beard Appolatments.

Gov. Goodrich appointed John J. Brown, farmer-lawyer, of Rockport, to the etate {ax board to succeed Strange N. Cragum, whose term expires December 1. Phillip* Zoercher, present commisioner, was reappointed. Gov. McCray lis opposed to the Zoercher appointment and will call for his resignation when he assume of-

) House Warming. | When Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Koon opened their new home on First street the neighbors gathered and gave them 8 house warming. There were games and other amusements. Picnic Charley won the apple eating contest. Out cf town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Green of Detroit. . g

Metting of Eastern Star.

An interesting assembly of the Eastern Star lodge occurred Tuesday eyening in thisc ity at which the foilowing new members were added. Mrs. Bonnie Griffith, Mrs. Emma Sisterhen, Mrs. Alma Kelley and Miss Ethel Hursey. ‘A fine supper was served after the initiation to the lodge members and visitors. . §

Farmers Elect Officers.

" The Sparta township farmers association elected the following officers: Chairman, John Lowe; vice chairman, Dane Secrist; secretary, Charles Iden; - treasurer, Marion Berberich. The recent drive added 100 new members to the organization. = ;

Open Quail Season

The open season for quail is now on and will extend until December 20. The bag limit is 15 birds a day and this limit extends but three days conse-

Relocate Plant.

The municipal lighting plant at Kendallville may be relocated. To build a side track to the present location would cost the city $25,000.

Rumored Marriage. The story is going the rounds that Frederick Reiff and Wilma Snyder Ligonier young people were married in Michigan June 9th.

~ Fears Something Wrong. | Jakey Franks, writing from Detroit Michigan, inquires if the Bannmer is dead. Declares he has had no paper aines November 2ad. %

BOY SCOUTS REORGANIZE Ligenfer Youtks Form New Organizaton Under Leadership of J. G -s = % The Ligonter troup of the Boy Scouts of America held their ~organizaticn meeting Tuesday night in the bascment of the Public Library for reorganization.. Rev. Thompson, the Scout Master, resigned on -account of many duties and the committee in charge, A E K:elley H B Browa, Williamm Davis, Harry Moeontzer - and Rev. H. Lawis Meyer have sclected J. C. Brunk Co. Y. M. C. A. seeretary to succeed him. , a 5

This troop has for the paet two years been a part of the County Y M. C. A. program for youanger boys, and we hope the patrol will bé completed during the next few .weeksa Right now there Is a member ship deive on to reach as many boys in the county as possible.- =

Tuesday night three patrols were formed: They are the Silver Fox, wits Carlos Lane, patrol leader and Stanley Franks assistant. ‘The Owl patrol has Errington Bowen leador with assistant Bud Bolitho. The Wolt patrol has Howard Baker leader with Ben Radford assistant.. These three patrols are complete. We still have roem for cme moré patrol. The uanmies of the boys joining are Carlos Lane Harold Schloss, William Bentine, Poy Castetter, Leonard Selig. Stanley Franks, Mortimer Straus, Errington Bowen, Lester Blue, Buddie Holith Paul Davis, George Butts, = James Schutt, Ben Radford, Howard Baker, Henry Harsh, Paul Tyler, John Wier, Edward Fisher, Robert Straus.

France to Uphold Leagne.

An associated press dispaich froo Paris declares: : . :

* France has shown the same ardor in her work of recomnstruction as she did in the war, and has successfuly crossed the passage from war to peace which Is always difficult for victors says Premier Leyues in an inter view printed by the Petit Parisian, - Belief ‘{B expressed by Mr. Leygues that the League of Nations must become a great force and a strong barrier against a return of imperialism and materialism. He declares the govefnment’s program is s 0 to enforce execution of the Versailles treaty tha: national recomstruction agd the orD R et s may be advanced. e

Celebrate Golden Weddlng.

Tuesday, Nov. 2, election day Mr. and Mrs. Sylvanu s .Hancock cele brated their golden wedding at.their pleasant home in- Grand Rapids, Mich. The Grand Rapids Herald prints a fine portrait of the couple and gives an elaborate account of the nuptial cele: bration. Mr. and Mrs. Hancock weir former residents of Ligonier and are well kncwn to the older resident-. Sylvanus Hancock was continuous:y employed by the Lake Shore Railwa: company for 45 years. He celebrated his 724 birthday anniversary last Tuesday. The Banner is indebted to Mrs. W. A. Cochran for the Grand Rapids paper. 2

New Law Firm.

Judge Wrigley made many friends while on the bench and his decisions were seldom reversed when an appeal was taken to a higher court. In retiring from the bench, Judge Wrigley and Glenn Thrapp of Kendallville who was a candidate for prosecuting attorney on the democratic ticket, have formed a law partnership, and will have charge of offices in their respective towns, Albion and Kendallville. ; A i el

Telephone Fight at Albion.

Albion has a telephone war.. The company wants to raise the rural rate from $l.OO to $1.50 a month and to $1.756 for the towns. Every patron of the company is said to have agreed tp cut out phone service if the raise Is made. There ‘is bound to be a merry war for a time. : ) e

Many Idle Workers.

Wilbur Inks who has been employed in Detroit for about a year is hom» for a visit of two weeks. Mr. Inks says there is a great army of idle workers in the automobile city and that many are drifting away. Many big manufacturing plants have closed

Five Years to Do the Trick.

Five years will remove all trace of the saloon evil except possibly a swinging door, federal prohibition commissioner, John F. Kramer, said in & speech at the Y. M. C. A. '~ Organization Continues. The democrats at a meeting in Indianapolis decided to maintain headuqarters there and will keep officers in charge permanently. - . ‘ - Gets Life Sentence. George Morrigson, who defiled a little girl of nine years, was“given a life sentence in the Allen circuit court Monday. ' : Cold Snap Arrives. ; The cold snap foretold by the weather man arrived.. Thermometers in_Ligonier registered 24 above zero & o o'elosk Thursday morning.

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GABBLE AND EAT NOVEMBER 220 WL ITEREST THE FARKERS

There will be a general meeting and banqu.et_l by the Ligonier Community Assoclation on Monday e¢vening, Nov =

. AU this meeting Important business will be transacted. The constitution and by-laws of the organization will be passed upon and adopted and a game will be chosen from a list of about- 2§ suggested by contestants for the $5 prize offered by the directors. At their meeting Monday night the directors canvassed the names and decided upon either one of two, the final sélection being left to the mecting of members. : :

It is highly probable that the meet‘ng and banquet will be held in Eagles hail as.that place is the best equipped in the city for such a gathering. " The purposes of the Community Association bhave already been pretty well set out in the Baoner. The whole aim fs to extend Ligonfer community interests beyond their present boundaries. "In order to accomplish this it 8 necessary to enlist the interests of the farmer and his family. The object can be accomplished by improving irade conditions and insuring the farm residents absolutely fair ‘treatment. The farm occupants are in turn expected to deal fairly with their townsmen so that a mutual interest may be created and enlarged. . When all elements of the community come to understand their mutual obligations the task will be a pleasant and *asy one as well as profitable to all concerned. - i

< The bigger and better Ligonier becomes as trading point the richer becomes her citizens. And the farmers in the community benefit from trade advantages as well as the added value to their farms. The fact that Ligonier is situated in. the center of one of the richest and most prosperous farming belts in the north-west is a big asset to the town. Her trade possibilities aré unlimited and this makes for‘the most advantageous market place for all products of the faym. The town and country tributary mus: be formed into a close corporation so as to produce the best results for ail.

. Envy and suspicion will never get anywhere in any community. Closa*® confidential relations between the city and country will insure the highest de-~ gree of prosperity for all. - - A community association will not make all men honest but it will tend to make dishonesty appear in its true light. : :

It a member of the Ligonier Community is in distress or needs favors

it should not be necessary to go to some other community for relief. He should receive proper consideration right at home and this he will have it#the community spirit ie properly developed. . : While business interests are the basic qualities of commercial organigations the Ligonier Community Extension movement has been started along broader lines. The object is to combine social relations with those ot trade and traffic and the development of civic advantages for all.

- Good churches and schools and improved highways are among the improvements sought to be obtained by all the people working together for a common end. : :

Farmers will be invited to participate in the deliberations of the Ligonier Community Organization.

Pretty How-de-Do.

Anna Brown has filed suit in the Elkhart circuit court asking for divorce from Charles Brown. This is the second marrige entered into by the same people. The complaint sets forth that the defendant refused to allow the plaintiff to wear a corset and that he attempted to forcibly change her political views. :

League Counecil to Meet.

The forth coming meeting of the council of the league of nations which opens in Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 15 is attracting many representatives from all nation members.. The hotels are already taxed to care for the visitors. Every important nation but the United States will be officially represented.

Fined For Hunting on Sunday. John Blain and Isaac Bell of Etna were fined $1 and costs, totaling $12.50 each for hunting last Sunday. The arrests were made by Game Warden ' Vanderford. L