Ligonier Banner., Volume 55, Number 15A, Ligonier, Noble County, 6 June 1921 — Page 1

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THEORY OF PROSECUTION 1S THAT MOTIVE FOR MURDER OF LOVETT WAS BIG LIFE INSUR. » . ANCE - o Aim Was to Pass Body of Murdered Youth Off For Virgil Decker ,‘

WARSAW, Ind., June4.—A story of an automobile ride with Virgil Decker, by which he, himself, was to have been lured to death, according to the prosecution,‘ instead of his ol“der brother Leroy Lovett, was,rela,;ed on the witness stand here today by Fred Lovett, 16, who with his father and mother,. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel ‘Lovett, of Elkhart, offered the strong_est testimony for the state, in the trial of Virgil Decker. e All the tesimony presented by the prosecution today tended to strengthen the state’s a steadfast contention that Leroy Lovett was murdered as the resuit o fa conspiracy by members of the Decker family to kill him, claim his body as that of Virgil Decker and collect $24,000 insurance on the latter's life. ] - The largest crowd which had yet attended the trial jamed'itself into the little courtroom, Men women and chiidren drove for miles from Atwood, Albion and Bourbon to be prése'm! and hundreds of farmers came in from the countryside. Many brought their lunches and remained in the courtroom until late afterncon when the hearing was adjourned because of illnes§ of "several of the jurors. : . "Mo Travel by Special Train. Reports from over the State to the Indiana Sunday School Association are that the convention of County and School workers at LaFayette, June 14, 15, 16, will be marked by record attendance, reflecting the growth in membership and enthusiasm- which for a year has prevailed in the Sunday schools. In many counties delegations will have sepcial trains over trolly and steam roads to LaFayette, and other will make the trip by motor cars. The rate of one- and one-half fare to desteam roads have made a ‘round trip legates on the certificate plan. Marshall, St. Joseph and Kosciusko Counties are mong those which will have special trains. Cass County will send a large delegation as will Delphi, Crawfordsville and several other towns. The . Bartholomew County chorus of fifty singers expect to attend. i P

© ° Big Suit Filed. , ' Straus Brothers Co. and Nathan Rothchild have sued J. W. Baber and Emma Boughan for possession of real estate and $lO,OOO damages, alleging that the defendants are preventing the consummation of a big deal with the G. W. Gates Co. through their refusal to give possession to the plaintiff. : : The property is dispute is located in Fort Wayne. The plaintiff alleges that the defendants are not the owners of the property since they have a lease on it granted by Mrs. Boughan's husband before his death. i : - Leses Top of Car. . - Saturday -the top of a Ford touring car, owned by Fred Scott of Benton employed. as a clerk in the offices of. Reith-Riley Construction company was discovered on fire. Before the blaze was extinguished the entire top was destroyed by the flames. Mr. Scoit states that he believes that the blaze started from a spark from a Wabash train as he was enroute to Goshen from his Benton home. ' - Trial Starts June 20, - - June 20 was set as the date for the trial of the -next state case against Charles E. Morrice in wihch the I-XL. Furniture company, of Goshen is, the prosecuting witness. Special Judge Eli F. Beebirt, of South Bend who ‘heard the first case, in which Mr. Morrice was acquitted was in Elkhart and qualified as spcial judge. .

G. & G. Groeery. The G. & G. grocery doing business in the room next to the Banner office is closed. Beginning Wednesday -morning. the entire stock will be closed out at cost. : : The store was opened some months ~ago by David Gale and son Clarence and it did not prove a paying return. - e 7 g o S 5 ey : Ran Away to Meet Lover. ' Miss Dorothy Bateman, 15, a runaway girl from St. Joseph, Michigan, spent Friday night in the Elkhart county jail pending the arrival of the St. Joe authorities who will return the _girl to her home. She came to Goshen to meet her lover who is-employed in & factory there. = o ; e B S < % Twoßuits on Nete, . ' The State bank of Topeka through ~ its attorney L. L. Burris has field suit - fn the circuit court against J. Voyle ~ Phillips and Eva Phillips for $250 on . & promissory note, Seagly Bros. of ~ Ligonier “have filed suit against the

The Tigonier Banner,

' AUTOMOBILES $270 "EACH' e o Assessed Value of Live Stock, Autos, - Farm Implements, Ete., Is $1,5677,229 : 2 ¥ County Assessor J. A. McLaughlin has submitted a partial report of the assessed value of horses, mules, cattle hogs, sheep and household furniture and automobiles in Noble county, covering the period up to April 25. The grand total assessed valuation aggregates $1,577,229.60. A complete report will be tabulated later:

One interesting feautre of the report is there are 1,182 automobiles in the county with an average assessed valuation of $270, making a grand total of $29,140. sl ‘The number of horses and mules in the county is 3,348, the average assessed valuation being $99.57 each; grand total $33,415.36. : ;

H0g5—13,149; average price $11.56 per head; grand total $150,982.44, Cattle—B,637; average price $34.55 per head; grand total $298,408.35 ~ Sheep-—6,966; average price per head, $5.88; grand total, $40,950.08. Farm implements—9B7; average price $143.55 grand total $137,683.85. Household furniture—2,376; average price, $133.27; grand total, $316,649.52.

- ‘Results of Oklahoma Race War. Following shows: the results of the race war in Tulsa, Oklahoma: . ‘White dead—lo o Negro dead—9o - Whites injured—7s « - - Negroes injured—2oo : Propetry loss—More than $1,500,000. Destroyed by fire—Twelve blocks of rseidences in negro district. Homless—3B,ooo negroes; 5,000 whites. ' .

Cause—Alleged attempted rape of white girl by negro. S How quelled—By four companies of state troops totaling approximately 600 men. - :

; Masonic Meeting. A special assembly of Kendallville council 50 Rdyal and Select Masters, will be held in .the Masonic temple there, Thugsday, June 9. The degrees of Royal and Select Masters will be. conferred in the afternoon, commencing at 3:30 o’clock, followed with a banquet and a social hour at 6:15 o’clock. : e In the evening the beautiful and instructive dramatic degree of Super-Ex-cellent Master will conferred in all its splendor and impressiveness on a large class of candidatés. ° :

LaGrange Old Settlers Meet June 16. The old settlers’ meeting of LaGrange county will be held Thursday June 16, with Dr. R. J. Wade of Chicago, the principal speaker. A splendid program is being arranged and many of the early pioneers of the county are expected to participate in the day’s festivities. : : Cannot Stop the Band. ; William Farren band leader of Columbia City secured the signatures cf the parents of twenty-nine boys to play a concert Sunday at Loon lake. The ministérial association of Columbia City recently appealed to the boys’ parents to prevent their sons from playing on Sunday. - : Brother Furnishes Blood. Mrs. Bailey and son Schuyler of Maple View farm returned from. Fort Wayne Wednesday. Schuyler furnished the blood for tranfusion into the veins of his sister, Mrs. Melvin Mahler of Ligonier; patient at Luthern hospital. S ; : S . - Will Go to Prison.

Everett Harding of Chicago who posed :as a cousin of President Harding and worked his pull for all it was worth among the office seekers, was convicted of fraud and will serve fifteen months in the federal prison at Leavensworth. o : _ Teacher not Guilty. = Weldon Gross teacher in the Washington Center school was acquitted of a charge of assault and battery on Gerald Beck, a pupil. The charge was preferred by the boy’s father. The lad disobeyed a ruling of the teacher and was chastised. . s o No Kick at Garrett. Eittle kicking was made by railroad employees at Garrett over the 12 per cent eut in wages. Some of the men expected._even a larger cut than was made, : ; ~* Big Communit Meet. The biggest and most enthusiastic community meeting ever held in Whitley county took place at Washington Center, Sixty-eight splendid cakes and 38 gallons of ice cream were served.

. New Laws in Effeect. : Two hundred and twenty-nine laws passed by the 1921 legislature became effective Friday, June 3, when Gov. McCray issued a proclamation compléting their promulagtion. | - Perry Township Farmers to Meet The farmers organization of Perry township will meet at Trittipoo school Thursday evening, June 9, An interesting program has been arranged. Low Temperature, . The temperature of Friday night and Saturday forenoon came near reaching the freezing point,. .

LIGONIER. NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, MONDAY JUNE 6, 1921

$20,000 SHORTAGE MADE GOOD

Huntertown State Bank, Recently Robbed and Plundered Reopens : Today ;

~ The Huntertown State bank reopened for business today. The books will be in the best of condition and all assets intact. Every cent of shortage has been made good by the stockholders, according to C. W. Camp, state bank commissioner, who has been investigating the bank,which was raided recently by bank robbers and some of the deposits embezzled by R. C. Warnock, its cashier. It is understood the shortage of Warnock will aggregate $20,000. Warnock pleaded guilty to embezzlement and disfranchised for ten years and sentenced to state prison at{ Michigan City: from 2 to 14 years. He is now in prison. Mr. Camp said that there is every possibility that a large amount of the funds embezzled by ‘Warnock will be recovered. The bank has been closed pending the investigation. R a 0 e

l Noble County Livestock Tours. - We will hold the best, series of education livestock tours next week June 13th to 17th, that has ever been held in the County, declare the farmers in charge of arrangements for Noble County’s 2nd Annual “Week of Tours” Great improvement has been made in Noble county hears the past ‘three years and we will be enabled to study and examine many individual animals of outstanding merit. ‘ Spotted Poland China herds will be visited Monday, June 13th Tuesday, the Big Type Polands Wednesday, the red Duroc-Jersey herds; Thuréday will be theßoy’s General Livestock Tour on which herds of Holstein, Jersey and and Shorthorn Cattle as well as Spotted Poland, Big Type ) Poland and Duroc hogs will be studied and Friday ,the 17th the trip will be to the progressive Shorthorn cattle herds of the county. Tourists will leave the court, house at 9:30 a. m. daily. Each will provide their own noon hour lunch. : 3 :

The tours will be conducted by Prof. J. W. Schwab, an experienced livestock man of Purdue, who has conducted tours in the county the past two years and who has been doing this kind of work al lover Indiana for a.decade. Mr. Schwab’s special knowledge of livestock and his ability to instruct others in livestock judging are such that the committees sought his services for the third time.

State S. S. Convention, Lafayette, Ind., June 6—Every phase of modern Sunday School work and methods will be discussed by world famous speakers at the annuai State Sunday School convention to be held in Lafayette ahd at Purdue university June 14, 15, and 16. Indications are that the attendance will break all records as the program is the best that has ever been arranged for a Sunday School convention in Indiana, including,~as it does, inspiring mass meetings, numerous sectional sessions, a pageant under the direction of the celebrated H. Augustine Smith of Boston, Mass., an open air vesper sevice on the Purdue campus and many other attractive features.

Enjoy Wagoner Hospitality. A most enjoyable time was had Sunday when a big dinner and supper were served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Wagoner in honor of Mrs. Ed Belts to celebrate the anniversary of her birth. Mr. and Mrs. Wagoner were assisted in the entertainment by Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Decker, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Casey and Mrs. Osie Neison, Mr. and: Mrs. Ed Belts being the guests, - ; : Held on Suspicion. Charles Eberly age 28, giving his home at Butler and claiming to be a married man with four children, was arrested in Columbia City, Friday aft.r he had sold a gquantity of postage stamps. His explanation was that he was broke and needed money and was selling some stamps which he had purchased. Postoffice Inspector Piatt of Fort Wayne has been summoned and will investigate the case. s e 2 . Horse Thief Taken. = Word comes from St. Louis-Mo., that the thief whe semetime a go stole a horse from Warren -Parker and a buggy and harness from Dwight Parker at Wolf Lake is being held to await the arrival of Indiana officers. The property was stolen more than two weeks ago and it had been given up as lost. :

- Sunday to Invade Geoshen. Arrangements are being made for Rev. Billy Sunday evangelist to conduct a revival in Goshen next September. A feed barn wihch covers the greater portion o fa quarter of a block will be leased for the meeting place. It is located half a block from the court ‘house. : A ¥ | SRR TR B 7 No Successor. ‘ Goshen school authorities are finding fifficulty in securing a successor for Prin. W. H. Wheeler of the high school there, who has resigned and ‘will go to Kankakee, Il : s g 4b — f— i i - Drowned Boy Found. After dragging the St. Mary’s river near Fort Wayne for several days authorities found the body of Alvin Geick age 17. hTe boy was the sole support of his mother. .

SEASON OPENS "~ NEXT SUNDAY

LIGONIER’S NEW BALL TEAM WILL PLAY THE GRAYS IN GOSHEN cn SUNE 1% -

Many Boosters to Wiltness Contest From This City Which Promises . Mueh Sport

’ Ligonier has a new ball team. She not only has a new team but a good one, expert players’ having been gathered -from different sections and the opening game is to be played against Goshen Grays in that city next Sunday, June 12, the game to start at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Arrangements have been made to furnish cheap transportations to Goshen from Ligonier on the date of the contest and a big crowd of boosters will go over to encourage the Ligonier player Be. il .. . : |

The amusement -season in this city will be greatly improved by the organizatoion of a strong ball team and the local fans are anxious to give the new team a big send off next Sunday Subsequent games will be divided between Ligonier and other towns. .

Looks Like Fraud.

A second chapter in the wholesale stealing of automobiles was written when John Gallager and Charles Hidge representing an insurance ecompany were in Auburn looking up evidence in connection with a claim for $l,OOO which was paid to Paul Caruso for the theft of his Buick automobile at South Bend on June 24th of last year. - o er

- Caruso and -his partner Spadafore, who conducted a confectionery in Auburn are both in the hands of the federal authorities at Indianapolis charged with stealing automobiles, having been arrested at Elkhart together with Henry Deßosa, of Wauseon,. Ohio, who it is alleged is also a party of the wholesale theft of automobiles.

, Making Fine Progress. _ The Rieth-Riley Construction company is mdking fine progress on laying the concrete pavement to close the last gap on the Goshen-Ligoniér division of the Lincoln highway. About 400 feet of pavement is being placed daily. The force is now at work on the curve north of the Hire school house in Benton township, and it is expected Sugar hill, about a mile and ‘'a quarter away, will be reached not later than July 1 and possibly in three weeks. ~ Harvesting Their Crops. ~ The Clawson brothers of Ligonier are now busily engaged in harvesting their wild crops of ginseng and golden seal. Their business. takes them into deepest thickets, over marshes and hills. the past week was a good one fotzthem their sacks being filled with choicest roots.: The roots are carefully dried and sorted before selling. They derive a nice profit from these roots. Farmers Are Pooling Their Wool. . Members of the Farmers’ Federation of Noble county are making splendid progress in the pooling of their wool. A carload of wool was recently shipped to Columbuys, 0., to be turned over to the Ohio Sheep and Wool Growers’ association for storage and sale. About 10,000 pounds of wool have been placed at Albion waiting shipment.

Two Farmers Die, _ 1 William Shaneline, aged 59, a retired farmer died at Avilla of paralysis. His widow, three brothers and three sisters survive. | George Badger, aged about 65 years died Friday at his home near La®tto. e had been in failing health for some time. A widow survives. : * Daughter is Born. A daughter was born this morning to- Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Weaver of New York city. Both -were formerly of Elkhart and Mrs. Weaver before her marriage was Miss Ellen Barney, well known in Ligonier. il e ! . Laborer Loses Life. .- Panl Vandelaffelle of Mishawaka Belgian, a laborer employed by the Oberlin Plumbing company in excavating for sewcr pipes in that city died of 'suffocation when he was carried 10 feet into the earth and held fast as the result of a trench eave in. - ,

. Auto Accident. ~ Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O’Brien of Elkhart, sustained brusises and the for-. mer two broken ribs Friday afternoon about five o’cloek when their automobile turned over near Wakarusa. They were returning from a funeral at Nappanee. e ’ | ' Scheinger Recovering. Joseph Scheininger South Bend ‘business man who it was thought was fatally hurt when he fell down. an elevator in a Fort Wayne store is recovering in St. Joseph hospital Fort ‘Wayne. ) The Ligonier public library opened thig afternoon after being closed for a week for cleaning and fumigation.

JURY AGREES TO DISAGREE

Ceell Burkett Aged 11, Released on ~ Bond of $lO,OOO Furnished by : Neighbors

~ Judge Pentecost at Knox dismissed the "jury hearing the case of Cecil Burkett, 11, charged with the murder of a playmate when ,the foreman of the jury said an agreement was impossible. . The jury had been out 139 hours and argued :all night over Cecil’s fate.

Cecil, although the jury disagreed, will get out too. He is under $19,000 bond, raised by the citizens of Ora, his home town. : ~ GREAT FLOOD DAMAGES Many Lives and Millions In Property Swept Away in State of Colorado ~ Pueblo, Colo.; June 4—Flood waters of the Arkansas river swept through Pueblo last night and today and caused deaths that may total 500 ,and pro-% perty damage in excess of ten mil-i lion dollars, according to the fragmentary reports that can be gathered as the flood recedes. ‘ Morgues were opened in different parts of the city and by mid-afternoon 132 bodies had been recoverd. The entire eastern and southern. sections were cut off from the business section.

The Red Cross organized to aid sufferers and C. W. Liee was named official food administrator to have charge of rationing the food available in the city. : The whole business portion of Pueblo was under six to eight feet of water this morning, but by afternoon the flood had begun to recede, disclosing a scene of devastation. | Insuranee Officers €hosen. ~ One of the most enthusiastic meetings ever held in the twenty-nine years of the history of the Noble County Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance company took place at Albion Saturday afternoon, About seventy members met at the court room, the most importantwf feature of the meeting being the elec-| tion of officers, wihch resulted as follows: President, W. C. Auman, of Kendallville treasurer, J. C. VanGorder, Avilla, re-elected; actuary, first distritrict, Joseph E. Kapp, Washington township. Solicitors were elected as follows: Wayne township G. M. Shaffer; Orange, W. P. Grannis; Elkhart, Goe. J. Zimmerman; Sparta, H. E. Hoak; York, V. C. Simon; Green Gee. T. Ott; Noble, G. Fred Young; Washington, T. Bouse. The insurance company has been organized twenty-nine years. | A cyclone feature avas adopted and been iz use for thep ast fourteen years.

Stung Again,

' John -Ginder went through a rather odd experience Tuesday afternoon while driving the Jones®' Hardware Ford truck in the alley back of the Dr. Grisier home.. Jhon was moving along not noticing anything in particular when a bee got busy and stung him a couplé of times on the right hand, with which he was steering the machine. John lost control of the car and it ran against a . telephone pole. The windshield was smashed and the flying glass cut his hand but he escaped serious injury.—Columbia City Post. :

What a Noise. The Larwill bank has completed the installation of a new burglar alarm which by the sounding of an automatic gong will arouse the town to danger at night and in case of a day-light hold-up. electric buzzers will sound in other business houses in the town, thus acquainting them of the circumstances. ' ' : : ; ’ o 1 Killed Dynamiting Fish. . Clarence Mow 35 was killed at Rochester Saturday by an explosion of dynamite. Woodcutters working near a stream on the outskirts of the .city found the body on the banks of the creek after having heard an explosion. It is believed Mow was dynamiting fish and was killed by a premature explosion of one of the sticks. f . Children’s Day. : - Next Sunday will be children’s day all day at the ‘Presbyterian church. - " A special sermon will be preached in thé morning at 10:45. i - At 7:30 p. m. a delightful program will be given by the children of the Sunday school. - : 5 > : ~ Boy Scouts Camp. Seventeen Boy Scouts from Kendallville.and about the same number from Ligonier hiked to Colwell grove, Diamond lake Saturday evening and camped out. J. C. Brunk, of Ligonier was camp master. - e T Complain of Ants. -~

Complaints come from farmers that ants are damaging the meadoys and timothy fields. Owing to their great numbers they are building many mounds that affect the growth of the grags. | - : ‘

Voeational Training Centre. The federaligovernment has designated Fort Wayne a vocational training center for former service men of twelve ‘counties. ; ~ The Columbia City coucil has just paid $7,480 for a street flusher and the city treasury is not as flush as it was, S e =

YEGGS VISIT ORLAND BANK Rifle Safety Deposit Boxes Believe Loss Is Small Only. Slight Clue . Yeggs who forced an entrance into the Citizens’ Stat® bank at Orland early Thursday morning are ‘still at large. The robbers burned a hole in the vault with an acetylene torch and rifled. safety deposit boxes. The money compartment of the vault was; not penétrated. It is believed the loss ‘will be nominal. The robbery was not discovered until. W. J. Case, cashier opened the bank Friday for business. ; A number of bonds were found scattered over the floor some of which were registered. . : i The only clue left by the yeggs was a Logansport newspaer and an acetylene torch. ; ' : TO ALL OWNERS OF e . MOTOR VEHICLES

Every owner of a motor vehicle in this county has received two registra‘tion blanks from the secretary of ista.te together with an abstract of the new law requiring registration -as to title of ownership. - The law was written® and pushed by the Hoosier State Auto association to stop the commercialized theft of vehicles. No motor vehicle may be sold without a propér transfer of the certificate of title. The thief won’t have this certificate if the legal owner keeps it in a safe place as he would a deed to his home. - ; i

What to Do.

1. The vehicle owner must correctly fill out all blanks on the first page of the large questionaire. Enginé and serial numbers must be correct. % S Uk

2. Correctly fill out blanks on reverse side, using space No. 1 if car was purchased new; space No. 2if ‘car was purchased secondhand. L 3. Go to authorized dealer for your particular make of vehicle and get his assistance. If he has no notary he can instruct -you where to get notary service. In every county seat certain dealers or others are authorized to act for the secretary of state. The law provides that any ngtary may administer the oath, but the notary must be satisfied that facts given in the blanks are correct. e

4. Fill out the smaller blank referring to the container for the reégistrating receipt. Do not confuse this with certificate of title which will be sent to you from secretary of state’s office. The receipt you got when you obtained your license plates will go into the container which must be placed in the driver’s section of the vehicle. - This merely shows you have legally registered your vehicle. The title itself must be kept in a safe place. E : - :

' 5. Where motor numbers or serial numbers have been effaced or altered or is missing special application for permission to stamp on an assigned number must be made, on a speciak blank to be obtained from authorized registrarg or from the secretary of state's office. ;

6. If you endorse good roads, good legislation, properly marked routes and auto-theft work of the Hoosier State Auto association, and wish to help further the Wwork of this civic body, authorized registrar will take your membership and the state auto association will pay the $l.OO fee for your title registration. All blanks and checks will thus come to the H. 8. A. A. at Claypool Hotel Indianapolis.

NEWS NOTES : Mrs. D. M. Rench is quite ill and under the care of a physician. ' Mr. and Mrs. William 'Hoeckle of Elkhart were Sunday guests at the Mrs. George Sack home. W i Paul Tucker of the University of 11Inois is home to spend his vacation with his parents Mr, and Mrs. H. P. Tucker. : ‘Miss Martha Hutchison left today for Washington D. C.; on account of the illness of her mother who will have to undergo a serious operation. Miss M. Olive Sisterhen, the trained nurse and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Sisterhen will enter a South Bend ‘hospital Tuesday for an appendicitis &;operation.j o v s SR v Mr, and Mrs. W, H, Wigton will go to LaGrange Wednesday to attend the ‘wedding of Miss Buby Wigton and ‘Fleming Alderson, a . prominent attorney of West Virginia. The coming ‘bride is an accomplished teacher and I,xs quite well known in this city,

Lovers of tennis will find the courts in Riverside park very attractive these days. There is a crying demand for benches along the river bank in the park and merchants are invited to supply them carrying their advertisements. . : e - B e Since finishing school work the Red Cross Nurse has been engaged in follow up work of the school inspections with the result that several corrections have been made which other‘wise would have been neglected. One case especially in which a 7 year old child with a defect having glasses fitted which here tofore had made school promotions impossible,

MONDAY THURSDAY

VYOL. 55 NO. 15A

AVERAGE CHAUTAUQUA INVALU_ABLE AS EDUCATOR IN PRO- ' MOTING MORALITY. Ligon ier Meeting _to Be - Held in August Will Exeell Any Former Assembly.

In view of fthe coming of the Chautauqua this August it is worthwhile asking what is the meaning of it to the .individual and the community. What’s the idea? : When Bishop Vincent started this system of education and entertainment it was with the desire to bring to ‘men and communities. what he felt they needed—what he knew he himself had ‘missed all through his life and that was the privilege of univer-_ sity training, and experience. They idea. that he thus impressed upon the chautauqua system was one of education and training in the best, most compact, most helpful, most enteresting way possible. It means that the chautauqua fo be useful and stimulating both morally and mentally to the men and women and boys and girls of Ligonier this summer must be a worthy proffer of the oportunities and privileges of university extension work. The individual and the community must be not only entertained ‘but especially benefitted and uplifted in order that the expense incurred and the sacrificing labors- demanded of-both local committee and chautauqua talent ‘be justified. The program offered by the chautauqua committee f‘this. summer is especially gratifying in this respect. It is not only amusing and entertaining, but it will be educating and inspiring. Such numbers: as “The Rondoliers”, instrumental and vocal artists, and entertainers : like the Parnells are counterbalanced by such inspirers and educators as Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen,: and Woon Young Chun, the young Chinese scholar and scientist. . = The chautauqua idea will be found expressed most clearly and splendidly in the chautauqua program for Liggnier this coming August.

Better Baby Campaign. Beginning- July 18th and continuing three days a Better Baby campaign will be conducted for Ligonier and community. Infant Hygiene and child welfare as well asinstruction and information for baby’s mother and for prospective mothers are subjects of vital interest which will make up the program. ; More than this every mother of youngsters up to six years of age will have the benefit of the Free Clinic under the direction of Ada Schweitzer, M. D. directress of the Infant Welfare and Child Hygiene Division of the State Board of Health. - . This campaign for Better Babies ‘and more informed mothers is to.,be one of the best things of the kind this community has ever had. No charges of any kind will be made. Evergthing is a bsolutely free.

; Committees Report. : The sub-committee of five of the Indiana Live Stock Committee submitted a very comprehensive report on the ;organization _of co-operative live stock shipping associations at the meeting of the Live Stock Committee, May 28th ~ In addition to information on organization and management of these ‘associations ,a copy of an approved constitution and by laws is included. - . The report was accepted and will be Favailalble.fo'r anyone wishing informa‘tion on the subject. Copies will be ‘mailed to the County Bureau Presidents and Secretaries. ke ~ Select Primary Teachers . _The Ligonier school board has elected two new primary teachers for the local schools. ‘Miss Elizabeth Hire, accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Hire who has been attending Chicago university is one of the selections” and Miss Katherine Murray of Orleans is the other. Miss Murray taught in the Cromwell -schools last year with much success.. P

| Big Increase in Membership { 'The office of the American Farm Bureau reports the membership in-*tcreasing-at the rate of 50,000 per ‘month. - ~ On June Ist, there were 1,052,114 members affiliated with the American Farm Bureau Federation within 47 states. : . : i i } - Return the Property. i Saturday some one by accident or design picked up a ladies’ pocketbook in’ Dr. Lane’s office and carried it away. The receptacle contained over $2O in cash. The "owners’s name is printed in the book and it cannot be mistakew, .. | 5 < | e e . : - ‘During school vacation -the « Red Cross Nurse has put in spare time investigating living conditions ~in the west side of the county, on_several joccasions finding that families have not sufficient clothing. She has made ippeals for cast off clothing to which