Ligonier Banner., Volume 55, Number 48B, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 January 1922 — Page 2

The Ligoner Ba\nnexﬂt o ESTABLISHED liao. oo i ~ &Published by '* “he;Banner Publishing Company W. C. B. HARRISON Editor “Foreign Advertising Rer e & Published ejvery Monday and Thursday and entered in the Postoffice at Ligonier, Ind., as second class matter. -

Court’s Monotony Relieved by Heart-Gripping Tale. Grandmother Seeks to Tear Them From the Home Where They Have Nothing but Love—Fostermother Cries “Isn’t Love Supreme Over Law?"—Law Answers Children , Must Go to Grandmother Who Has Never Seen Them. - One million dollars versus love! That is the perplexing situation confronting Marion Read Holliday, ‘eight, and her sister, Millicent Pernel Holli-

day, six, ; : If they were twenty-one, with full power of reason and outside the control of the courts in the matter, which would they choose? : Even at their tender, childish ages they have evinced a keen ‘preference for the love they have attained and know rather than for the million dollars that may be theirs and the affection ~ that ‘it remains for an aged grandmother to prove. -

In the drab, gray drudgery of the courts months may pass without disclosing a single case that holds interest to others than the litigants. Then suddenly, as in this instance, there bursts from the legal foolscap and the routine motions of the court a startling, gripping, heart-rending situation such as has torn the emoticns of a family in New Jersey and two little children and has ripped the blase veil from the hearts of the metropolis. Goes Into Courts.

Mrs. Frederick Sherwood of Fanwood, N. J., from whom the . courts would take the custody of her .two foster children and give them to their grandmother, Mrs. Susie Church Holliday of Flatbush, believes her love will find a way. She cries qut: = “Isn’'t there something higlier, nobler, more powerful than money? Isn’t love supreme. .over law? 1 think there is something higher and greater than the letter of the law, and that this influence is love. And I think I can so convince Mrs. Holliday.” . Reaching back into other years, far behind the decision of the courts, is a story of the estrangement of a woman and her son. This woman is Mrs. Susie Church Holliday, wealthy widow, with a magnificent 600-acre estate in Pike county, Pa., automobiles, servants and all the luxuries her million-dollar fortune can afford. . The son was Read Holliday. For some time he and his mother had been estranged. So much so that she did not appear at his funeral when he died In 1917, though she now explains her age prevented her venturing out even on that solemn occasion in the storm of that .day. -~ :

Mrs. Read Holliday did not long survive her husband. She fell vietim two years ago to the white plague. On her deathbed, as in her will, she besought pathetically that the Sherwoods, long the friends of her husband and herself, take care of her two'little orphans forever. : ‘ Enter the Grandmother. : The Sherwoods, the facts have disclosed, arc far from Mrs. Holliday Sr. in finances.. From a clerkship with the Dry Dock Savings Institution, in New York, Sherwood through promotions reached the treasurership. His income is $lO,OOO a year. He has a neat little cotage in Fanwood and an automobile. ~ ; What he, from his own earnings, could do for the youngsters would; of course, be of a moderate nature. But Mrs. Holliday Jr.,, in the wisdom of her will, saw to it that ample funds would be provided for comfortable rearing, travel and cducation of the children. s <

She provided for each a trust fund of $60,000, the inconie to be employed for their maintenance and education untll they attain their majorities, when they shall receive the principal. Opposed to this assured life ©f comfort is the promise of a grandmother who, Mrs. Sherwood avers, has never

even seen’ her grandchildren. Yet the grandmother went to court for their custody and makes lavish promise that they will inherit her fortune, that she will send them abroad for educational purposes and furnish them all the comforts 'and luxuries her estate can devise and supply.

And it was the unanimous view of the high court that whatever other considerations entered into the heartrending dispute, there remained the law. The law, they held, dictated to their judicial consciences that Marion and Millicent must go to their grandmother. : , It was so ordered. - .

ilndians Have Desire for Motor Can.} Indians throughout the western part | of the United States have a strange | love for a motor car, according to reports from Indian agents. Many Indians purchase high powered machines | with the first money they receive from | ‘uhortﬂbailandl,theamtnre-l

PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN = Swee! Py = fom, | = e T e g ME Know = : =a 1Y - £ - . gep = Y more —_ , =éj . e = ¥ ‘ - . R 8 N === ‘’ ' S ‘:_.iti.:.:"',/ﬁ—’ He doesn’t Say Much, does the Cheerful - Giver, but he's there with the Willing Dive into the Ole Wallel whenever some Worthy Project in the Home Town needs Financial ‘Assist ance, which is the Kind of Conversa: tion that Counts.

CUBA FILIBUSTER TUG SOLD “The Three Friends” Could Show Heels to Speediest Warcraft. The ocean-going tug Three Friends, a filibuster previous to the SpanishAanerican war, has been purchased from the estate of the late Governor and United States Senatgr-elect Napoleon B. Broward, who long commanded her, and will be converted into a wrecking tug. & . The Three Friends, bullt in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1895, is 112 feet in length and her lines and power were such that she easily could show . her heels to all but the speediest warcraft of the day. When gun running became popular she joined the tug Dauntless, commanded by “Dynamite Johnny” O’Brien, and, eluding numerous Spanish and American warships, landed cargo after cargo for the Cuban patriots. : Other vessels were engaged in filibustering, but their activities soon were overshadowed by the hair-raising exploits of the Three Friends and the ‘Dauntless, and the names of the two tugs became familiar throughout the world. - i

SING SING LOSES A GENIUS Prisoner Who Operated Telegraph Line Between Cells Freed. When Howard C., alias “Bill,” Mezger, left Sing Sing recently, his sentence having expired, the prison lost a genius. Mezger, an inventor, was the offender who recently laid and operated secretly a telegraph line from his cell to that of J. O. Caldwell, another inmate, in the old cell block, The two were caught telegraphing to one another. Mezger served one year ané five months for grand larceny in Manhattan. He worked in prison as an electrician and invented two or three electrical devices, . ... el

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Superintendent of Five Tribes Tells of Whipping Posts on Oklahoma Reservation. A recent whi})ping administered at Ant!e_rs, 0k14., the home town of Maj. Victor M. Locke, Jr., superintendent of the five civilized tribes and one of the leading members of the Choctaw tribe, served to recall to the Indian superintendent’s mind a custom that many vears ago was pursued by the Choctaws to punish their members when they were found doing evil. e o

This punishment consisted of a public thrashing for the offender and Superintendent Locke well remembers the last legal punishment of this kind administered by the Choctaws. It took place in 1899 at Alikachi, and the vietim was a full-blood who had been convicted in the tribal courts of stealing a “roan setting hen.” : o

The chicken in question was a dominique hen. There was no word in the Choctaw language for dominique, SO the indictment was worded to read “roan” hen instead, that being the nearest accurate description that could be supplied. The Indian was given 30 lashes on the bare back with hickory switches.

Superintendent Locke says that up to 1900 the Choctaw tribe kept three whipping posts to control offenders. One was located at Alikachi, another on the forks of Boggy creek snd a third three miles south of Wilburton. Although the Choctaws had jails, they were seldom used, as trials moved so swiftly and sentences were SO quickly imposed that the jails were of little use. . | ;

Under the old Choctaw law a person convicted for horse stealing was given 100 lashes for the first offense. If the offense was repeated and the defendant convicted, he was shot to death, as the Choctaws never resorted to hanging. , . In the Cherokee nation capital punishment was executed by hanging.

PECPLE OF OUR TOWN %HAP—LES’ e UGHROE : $ AN I Y 1 "v. : DN\ 4T 4 . ‘\‘y ’ G\ 1)) G - ot ey (O ) ;;yx,fff,;m " ) The Editor wears a Happy Smile. The Paper has gone to Press, full of Ads, and He rejoices that Business is Going to Continue Good in Town because the Merchants are Full of Pep, instead of Moaning that Times are Hard and then Rolling Over and Playing Dead. '

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Notice to Notes Lost by Robbery. - Notice ig hereby given that three pro missory notes of $1166.66 each dated March 8, 1920 due respectively November 1, 1920, November 1, 1921, and November 1 1922 with interest payable annually at the rate of six per centum: per annum from July 15, 1920 negotiable and payable at the Farmers State Bank Wawaka, Indidna, with attorney’s fees and’ waiving relief given by Elmer P. Magnuson, Edward G. DePew, Alton Lower, Fred Zimmerman, John F. McCloskey, Edward Piggott, Mark Kinnison, Glenn E. Roei Harry J. Stuff Frank W. Franks, Fred Spurgeon George Randall andl Thomas D. Stingner and pay-‘ able. to° me were -by ‘the deposited in the Farmers State Bank Wawaka Indiana to be held for the convenience of myself and the makers thereof and the same were stolen at the time of the robbery of said bank, in October 1921 and I have never seen or heard of them or either of them since and do not know- where the same, or any of them are. All persons, firms and corporations are hereby informed of such loss and warned to make no purchase of same or any of them, as no person other than myself has any right, title claim or interest therein. S Dated this January 13 1922. " David S. Sontechi, . 47a3w

Baby Chicks Beginning with Tuesday Feb. 21 we will have a hatch of Baby Chicks every Tuesday-. We hatch 9 different breeds of pure bred utility stock, selected from free-range healthy flocks. Write for price list now. Archbold Hatchery ~ Archbold, Ohio

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~ Big Swine Sale in Goshen. The Elkhart County 0. I. C. Swine Breeders Association of Goshen Indiana will hold a public sale of thirty head of bred sows and gilts, February Ist 1922 at the Whitaker Sale Barn, Goshen Indiana. | : : ‘Sale to commence at 1:00 P. M. The object of this sale is to further extend among farmers and ~tock raisers an opportunity to seécure O. L C. individuals of merit and t, « -ate a larger interest in this brecd .of swine, : L iSome of the best herds of the country will be represented in this sale. For further particulars or in sending your bid, address O. C Vernon, 118 North Main St. Goshen, Ind. - Miss Leona Householder and REdward Honet of Kendallville eloped to Hillsdale and were married. o

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Pension Fuad Gets $15,000 The Eilkhart police pension fund will probably be increased by $15,000 as the result of the arrest of George Scruggs and Dan Ingram confessed mail robbers and of Joe Urbaytis of Toledo nearly a year ago who was convicted of the same offense. The governmnet offers a reward:of $5,000 for the apprehension and . conviction of mail robbers. ; { . Suifers From Hemorrhage. - Mps.. Solomdn Fulford prominent Wawaka resident is seriously ill at ‘her home suffering from hemorrhage of the brain. She was. reported slightly improved. She was taken ill of the ailment while asleep. e SR There have been 62 accessions to the church in Kendallville during a two-weeks revival. :

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~ Falls Through Hay Chute, - J. K. Riddle well known farmer residing east of Kendallville met with a painful accident this morning at 8 o’'clock while doing the chores at the barn, when he fell through a hay chite dislocating his right ankle. He was otherwise bruised but it is thought no serious results will follow. : : Eagles Sell Xome ‘ - “The Kendallville Arie of Eagles have sold their home a big brick house conSiStinﬁ of 20 rooms to Mrs. Marie Krupp who will conduct a rooming” house. Thé consideration was $5,250 The Eagles will purclase ground and build a fine new home. : ‘Remember the doughnut sale by the l‘Ladies Aid of the U, B. church at 'Frank E. Miller’s store all day Saturday, January 28. ; ]