Ligonier Banner., Volume 55, Number 45B, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 January 1922 — Page 2

- G 2 \ The Ligomer Banner J ESTABLISHED 11.... : i i % Published by o 1‘ - -' . - '.‘ “he Bannér Publishing Company W..C. B. HARRISON Editor . 1 ’For:i;n Adveitisiw l_ THE AMERICAN.PRESS ASSOCIATION Pablished every. Monday and Thursday and entered In the Postoffice at Ligonier, Ind., as second class matter. = . Alai i n o e s OSMIRIDIUM ONE OF HARDEST Metal Is Employed in Tipping of Fountain Pens and for Delicate Machinery Bearings. " An interesting history attaches to a gmall packet -about two .and a half inclies’ square which recently :n'ri}'ed in London. It weighed two and a half pounds and was eagerly bought by an. Awmerican firm for about $6,000. The packet contained osmiridium (osmium and its alloy, iridium), used for the tipping of fountain pen points and for delicate bearings of fine machinery. The discovery of osmiridium, which is a wewmber of the platinum group of metals, constitutes an interesting ro.mance, the Detroit News states. Toward the end of the last year a small group of prospectors were washing for gold in one of the river beds in Papua, British New Guinea. In their eagerness to find the precdious metal they threw away from their pans a bluish= gray, fluxy substance as worthless. * This was osmiridium,and it is eight times more valuable than gold and worth at the present time about $2OO an ounce, : When the men got back to the settlement they mentioned the occurrence to a min_ingAengineer,’ who immediately asked them what they did with the substance. They replied that they left it on the river bank, and the engineer exclaimed, “It must be 6smiridjum.” - The next ‘morning the whole party started fpr the spot, only to find on their arrived that the tropical rains. and the swollen river had washed away most of the precious stuff. What remained was carefully raked together, refined and dispatched to London, where it arriveH safely a short while ago, having been heavily insured for the voyage. L Osmiridium is one of thie hardest metals known and prospeetors —are eagerly searching for it in Papua. :

SEE STARS IN GREAT FLOCK Latest Group Discovered Believed to - Contain Equivalent of Quarter ' Million of Our Suns. ° . Every new invention of the astronomer’s obsérvatory enlarges the distance he 'can peer into space and measure its receding boundaries, so that one can never say which is the farthest star. : ey -’ But we can say which ig at the farthest distancé measured. This honor is it present borne by a tiny blur of lighi ‘which has no name and a few years ago was not noticed, but . which is now ldentified in the new general catalogue of stars ns No.p7oo6—or, more precisely; N. 1. C. 7006. : - It is not really one star, but a great flock of stars, probably containing more than the egunivalent of a quarter of a million of our suns, and it is so far away' that if some unkown as* tronomer could flash a light signal at us from one of the suns or planets there it would be nearly a quarter of a million years before that message could reach -us. : - There is good reason to believe that this flock of stars is moving toward us. It is hardly necessary to say, that it will take a long time coming, °

An Elastic Metal.

The most remarkable thing about vanadium steels is their almost miraculous’ elasticity. Today the metal vanadium is comparatively cheap. Yet only 30 vears ago it sold at $450 a pound, and was hardly more than a curiosity of the chemical laboratory.

When a use is found for a rare metal, sources from which it may bhe obiained in quantity are sure to be discovercd.. Thus. when the value of vanadium for steel alloys was ascertained, the fact was soon disclosed that vast ore beds containing: it existed in Colorado. It Is from these beds that the demand is now supplied. The ores are sandstone, impregnated with vanadium, and are dug out in enormous quantities. A by-product of vanadium mining is uranium, from which radium is obtained. -

Mythology. . Hebe was the goddess of youth, who poured out the nectar: with which the gods pledged each other., One day, upon a solemn occasion, she tripped end fell, and was forced to resign her cffice. Her father, Jupiter, secured as her successor the beautiful youth Ganymede. Hebe retained the power ‘of restoring the bloom of youth' and beauty to the aged and, according to some accounts, it was only after she became the wife of Hercules that she gave up her office of cupbearer, She even -succeeded In’ reconciling her mother, Juno, to Hercules, who suffered all his life from the hatred of the queen of ’th;- gods, Hercules was deified as a reward for his. achievements. s _

Coal Powder, “Atomized” coal—different from =merely “powdered” coal because very minutely . divided—lis a new product ‘that is finding important uses. It is used for making a high-grade * paint and also as a substitute for ~lampblack in the manufacture of ink. Another valuable emgloyment for it is in “facing” foundry molds, to give the surfaces a smooth finish in preparaHon forcustings, .. - 0 .

GOT EVIDENCE FROM 'GRAVE Chinese Tomb Two Hundred Years Old Opened to Prove Contention -, -as to Ownership. - ' As a means of adjusting a difference between’ Chinese litigants who appeared in the mixed court at Shanghai recently, the court directed that a grave mound 200 years old should be opened. L The dispute concerned the ownership of a small tract of ground. In the &c--tion, Sung Chui-Dong alleged that Yih Woo-Zoong invaded the premises under controversy and erected a bamboo fence around certain graves thereon, asserting that the place was his ancestral burylng ground. : The plaintiff claimed the property as his own by ancestral grant. When the grave mounds were opened, there were brought to light the tablets of a Chinese and his wife who had lived and died under the reign of the Emperor K’ang Hsl. ; - When the tablets were brought to court it was found thatythe characters on them were of pecullar form and the writing read from left to right instead of from top to bottom, but thé_ inking was clear and the placques weré well preserved. ‘ After the reading of the tablets, the court announced the graves as those of the defendant’s family and Sung's petition was dismissed. :

Improved Sewing Machine, A sewing machine that will do the family darning has now been patented, says Popular Mechanic§ Magazine. Its essential feature is a steel arm which carries the intricate mechanism @ontrolling the shuttle and feed. This is increased in a ball at the end of the arm. In this way about twenty parts have been eliminated, making :maintenance less expensive, and because of its simplicity, requiring less -power to run. In darning, the bedplate covers over the ball ‘and arm are removed, and the sock is drawn over the ball and along the arm. This construction also permits the sewing and mending of various other articles that require circular seaming. * Heilght of Aurora Borealis, A Norweglan scientist, M. Stormer, ~ was ableto have photographed at sev- ‘ eral points in his country, the aurora "borealls seen last May, which upset | telegraph lines and cables and provided a gorgeous display in many ‘ parts of the world. :

Comparing these photographs in relation to known stars photographed at the same time, he has calculated the height at which this aurora borealis was spread forth—namely, - 812% miles. S f . Thus, since the aurora borealis is by proof an electrical illumination of the rarified alr gases, the earth’s atmosphere extends -at least that -distance above the earth’s surface.—Detroit News. | : Is This Cruel and Unusual? Chinese “safety first” sponsors have hit upon a drastic method of punishment in the effort to minimize deaths and accidents, due to reckless operation of motor cars, in the suggestion of imprisonment for oifenders in a room with a wax figure of the victim. The Chinese Society for the Protection of Life has asked the Shanghai municipal council to adopt an ordinance prescribing the punishment, with the term of imprisonment left to the discretion of the court, °

New Zealand Offers Air Prize,

A substantial prize hag®been offered for the first flight from Auekland to Wellington in a New Zealand built airplane by a New Zealander.

Phone Conduits for Montevideo,

Uruguay has authorized experts from the United States to make studies for and underground_telephone system in Montevideo. ;

A Reminder . i)on’t forget that pronifiiio you mafic the geod wltg ' and daughter to buy a piane or Victrela. Come and leek at : stock of Muscal goods. W,e have what you want at the right Pianos, Player-Pianos and Victrolas l You can take the easy payment plan if you do met eare to pay cash. ’ . L Yours for 59 years of Musical Service. . ROGERS & WILSON South Main St. Established 1871 Goshen, Indiana

Thursday and Friday, Jan. 5 an. 6 ~Special Attraction “A TRIP TO PARADISE” with Ber! Lyteil n extra fine production alsoe a 2 reel comedy drama, = A(_]n‘i. 15 20 and 25e, : ' . Saturday, January 7 “THE TESTING BLOCK”: with William S.Hart, and ¢ Sunshine cqmedy.,r; b Sunday and Monday, January Band @ = “THE BL'OVE SPECIAL? with Wallace Reid a special production and a 2 reel comedy. o ; L o B

HAS HAD ADVENTUROUS LIFE United States Senator Cameron of Arizona Can Recall Wild Days of " the Woolly West. “Senator Ralph Cameron of Arizona has had enough adventures in real life to make Bill Hart or Tom Mix look . Ilike second-raters, if anyone could get the senator into competition as a story teller with the two leading Wild West movie heroes. Mr. Cameron was once an Arizona sheriff and that was in the days when there were still two-gun men floating around the outskirts of ecivilization and perforating their enemies now and then with perfectly good bullets made of real lead, | : i . So the present senator’s life was far from anm easy one. Heé once captured a bandit wanted pretty badly for murder and bluffed 200 Mexicans and later another crowd of Americans out of their plans to take the bandit away and try him before that wellknown :;"American'jur!st, Judge Lynch. He got; the bandit in jsil, kept him there gnd he finally was tried and sent up’vfor a little matter of 99 years. . Good Word for the 801 l Weevil. Mainly to the boll-weevil, and to a less extent to the’ exigencies of the

war, we owe the fact that a cotton equal if not superior te that grown anywhere in the world 18 being produced in Arizona, where, in the Salt River valley, 28,000 acres of creamcolored bulbs now bloom with cotton fiber that averages one and elevensixteenth Inches in length. - Cotton production in the Salt River valley plantation has increased from 15,000 bales in 1917 to 37,000 bales last year. It is expected that the output in 1920 will be 50,000 bales, which will be about one-eighth of the total production to be used in the manufacture of automobile tires. ' *This effort would probably not. have been made for many years if it had not been for the fact that the cotton crop of the South sea islands had been destroyed by the boll-weevil. The success of the domestic efforts in this direction was largely due to private enterprise. : ‘ ° Tunnel Ventilation Tried. » The test of the ventilation system in a' model vehicular tunnel, a replica of the proposed Hudson River tunnel from New York to Jersey City, con

ducted at the experimental mine of the United States bureau of mines af Bruceton, near Pittsburgh, was considered a success by the bureau’s officials and -members of the New Jer sey Bridge and Tunnel commission who attended. et Experiments were made to deter mine the effects of motor exhaust gases, the heat and the smoke, and th¢ best methods of eliminating all suck effects on motorists in tunnels, -

Discovered at Last.

A change in the function of the pitu itary body, one of the smallest of the ductless glands, which is about the¢ slze of a pea and is hidden on the underside of the brain, is responsibl¢ for the increase of divorce, according to Dr. Ernest E. Tucker, of New York This statement was made at the an. nual convention of the American Os teopathic Association of America. The growing wealth of the country and the increased standard of living is partly responsible for the chitnge of function in the gland and also contributed te¢ the divorce epidemic,

Bacteria Thrive on lce.

It has long been known that no des gree of cold yet attained will kill bacteria. Yet it might be supposed that they must at least be dormant when embedded in eternal ice. Yet Dr. A. L. MclLane found them alive and active in the ice many feet below the surface in the Antarctic expedi tlon conducted by Sir Douglas Mawson in 1911-1914.—Detroit Free Press

. LIGONIER BANNER, LIGONIER, INDIANA.

: Public Sale e I will offer for sale at public auction begininng at one o’clock Saturday, January 7, 1922 at the Platt residence near the Catholic church, Ligonier the following property: A State Hot Storm heating stove, a three-bur-ner oil stove, an 8-ft. round oak dining table, library table, small kitchen cabinet, Auburn roadster autOmobilve, organ in . good condition, two ‘rocking chairs, gix dining room chairs, three kitchen chairs, Verice Morton bedstead, springs and mattress, one full sized iron bed, one half size iron bed with springs and mattress for both, two commeodes, sofa iron spring cot, wash tubs and boilers, 15-gal jar, fruit jars, two cider barrels, cook ing utensils, dishes, few bed. clothes, 18 head chicken and other articles not mentioned. . Terms—All sums under $5 cash all over that amount a credit ¢f 9 months will be given with 7 per cent interest from date. ; : . J. 8S: Musser . R. Kurtz, Auctioneer : Joe W. Smith, clerk. ' :

We Have Receivedf Large Shipments | ol | Hard and Soft Coal Chestnut, No. 4 and Furnace sizes in hard coal. Best grades of | soft coal. | Full line ‘of Building Material now. Cre o 0 onhand COMPTON & HOLDEMAN ~ HOLDEMAN & SON Straus Wool House. _ “ Phone No.27¢g

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"CLASS 1. Members paying 1 cent the first week, 2 cents the second week, and increasing 1 cent each week for fifty weeks Will et ..o $12.7% * CLASS IA. Members paying 50 cents the first week, 49 cents the second week, and decreasing 1 cent each week for fifty weeks will get...,.... $12.75 CLASS 2 Members paying 2 cents the first week, 4 centg the seg:ond week, and ‘increasing 2 cents each week for fifty weks, will get....... $25.560 - CLASS 2 A Members payiné $l.OO the first week, 98 cents the second week, and decreasing 2 cents each week for fifty weeks, will geton... $20.560 CLASS 5. Members paying 5 cents the first week, 10 cents the second week, and increasing 5 cents each week for fifty weeks will get ....... $63.75 : : : Sl S ; ¢ CLASS 5A Members paying $2.50 the first week $2.45 the second week; and decreasing b cents each week for fifty weeks, will §ét beserianies 903,95

Just before Christmas you will recéive all the money you have saved with four per cent | ~ interest added if all paymentsare made regularly or in advance CITIZENS BANK oo Lidonier Indians -

This Means You, Mr. Merchant! " DID you_know that / you and this paper | '} have an interest in common? Your success helps - | thecommunityas awhole which in turn is of benefit to us. : : When a merchant advettises with us, he is invest- § ing his money, whichis § | returned with interest. | Show Your Goods In the Windows and Advertise Them in This Paper

o ONE DAY SALE @ Tea Kettles, large all white, seam- 69C less bottoms, a wonderful bargain at ‘ Blue and white seamless enzim- 89C eled 12-qt. pails at 98¢c; 10-gt. at - Blue and white seamless Berlin 89c lgettles, 8-quart at 98¢, 6-quart at o Remember, thisisonly for next ~ Saturday, and will not be - = good before or after. Hardwai'e v declining. Watch - us for more offerings. . 6 , - WEAVER'S - ‘Telephppelns..

; CLASS 10. Members paying 10 cents the first week, 20 cents the second Week‘ and increas}ng 10 cents each week for fifty weeks, will get e $127.50 CLASS 10A Members paying $5.00 the first . week, $4.90 the second week and decreasing 10, cents each week for fifty weeks, will get ........ $127.50 CLASS 10 Fixed. Members paying 10 cents a week for fifty weeks, will get .-$5.00 - CLASS 25 Fixed Members paj'in‘g 25 dents a week for fifty weeks will get $12.50 " CLASS 50 Fixed. Members paying 50 cents 2 week for fifty weeks, will get e s SEDDU . CLASS 100 Fixed Members paying $l.OO a week for fifty weeks, Will get .....c.cucinnene $OO.OO CLASS 200 Fixed Members paying $2.00 a week for fifty weeks will get ..o sloo.oo° CLASS 500 Fixed Members paying $5.00 a ! week for fifty weeks will get .. .cuiinivvmenn. $250.00 CLASS 1000. Members paying $lO.OO a week for fifty Weeks Will Bot w.cweemmmiisrcisesssssecenses $OOO,OO