Ligonier Banner., Volume 58, Number 5A, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 March 1924 — Page 2

GAMBLING

Only the gambler can aftord to take risks. It is a part of his every day life. It either ‘makes or breaks’ him. That is why the element of risk n}usf be absent from the average mans investment. - If you are not trained in financial investments or have not the means of getting full information on investment securities, come to us and we will gladly give you all information at our disposal. '

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WO ALT » »We ha've_ plenty ot _ Hard and Soft Coal and Coke . Both in our yards and jn»transit : , for turnace and stove . | Weir & Cowley

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Learn All The New Dance Steps Individual teaching to each pupil. Classes every Thursday night, 8 to 10 p.m. ARNOLD ELSON “ Phone 18 .

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The vLigomer Banner . ESTABLISHED 1886, ‘ - Published by | “he Banner Publishing Company ' W. C. B. HARRISON Editor Published every Monday and Thursday and entered in the Postoffice at Ligonier, Ind., as second class matter.

TB T e S ITS SS9O P B RIS DN B - Get Twenty Years. 1 W. G. Benham and Dwight Harrison officials of the R. L. Dollings( Company who were tried in United‘ States court on charges of having used the mails to defraud in connec tion with the activities of the com: panjy,, were each gentenced to twenty vears in Leavenworth federal penitentiary and to pay a fine of- $5,000 byl Judge John E. Sater at Columbus, O. The Hugro Company of Warsaw was one of the many companies in Indians involved ‘in the Dollings Company crash. _ ’ ! - Cars Crash Thursday. . A Ford truck driven by John Clements wholesale meat dealer at Wakarusa and accompanied Dby ; Floya Hahn an employee collided with ¢ Dodge touring car driven by HFred Strycker of near Goshen Thursdaj evening. The accident occurred twc miles north of Wakarusta while Clements was on his way to Wakarusa from Elkhart and Strycker was enroute home from Nappanec where he is employed. Clements said that the sun blinded him so that be couldn’t see the other car.

Pushed Through Window. Marie Goddard 20 and Dorothy Godier 13 of South Bend were severely injured when they were struck by an automobile driven by Mrs. Israel Shagaloff Thursday afternoon. * Mre Shagaloff became frightened by the repeated sounding of a street car gong behind her and turned into an alley. As she did so she struck the two girls pushing them through a store window. Both girls sustained fractures of their left legs above the knee and severe cuts and bruises. : Death of Mrs. Harrison. | Mrs. Louisa Harrison, aged mor¢ than 86 years and mother of W. C. B. Harrison of the Banner, died in 3 hospital at Hicksville, Ohio, Friday forenoon after an illness of about twc months. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison and son George Robert left for the Ohio town Saturday where the funeral ‘was held Sunday afternoon. - Women Wish to Serve as Jurors, The South Bend Chapter of the League of Women Voters Wednegsday afternoon filed petitions with the jury commissioners of all three county courts asking that they select women as well as men for jury service here-ag-ter.' The petitions, which contain no names were brought to the office of Wilbur M. Warner, county clerk Find Indian Skeleton. While workmen on the road between Wolf Lake and Bear lake were dynamiting at the Kiester gravel pit they recovered the skeleton of what evidently an Indian buried there se: veral centuries ago. Surrounding the skeleton were arrow heads, tomahawks and other articles of warfare) —Syracuse Journal. : i

Fire Destroys Roof.

Fire practically destroyed the root on the home of Homer S. Winters at Goshen early Thursday morning. The fire started in the kitchen from a defective flue, and made its way rapidly to the roof. The damage it was said will amount to at least several hundred dollars. : :

$5.00 for Catching a Rabbit.

- Noah Steffen, living five miles east of Bluffton, was fined $5 and costs in a justice court, when he pleadec guilty to a charge of hunting out of season., He said he was cutting wood when his dog chased a rabbit ‘into @ hollow tree. He later captured the bunny. .

Dies in Oregon.

Jeptha P. Stutzman 87 who lived ir Clinton township Elkhart county most of his life until about 10 years ago when he went to Florida and latex to’ California died on February 21st last in Hubbard Ore., in the home of a daughter Mrs. Henry Lehman. :

War on Sparrows

Farmers of Allentownship in the vicinity of Allen Chapel Kosciuskc county staged a sparrow killing contest and 865 were killed. One evening after the contest was closed the losing side treated the winning side to an oyster supper. '

Named County :Manager.

Frank Rozelle of LaGrange was appointed Thursday by W. M., Griffin) of Fort Wayde district manager ol the “Calvin Coolidge for President’ organization, as manager of the Coo* lidge campaign in LaGrange county.

Lady Leaves Hospital.

Mrs. Forest Waldron of Brimfield was discharged from the Goshen hospital Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Waldron had been in the institution some days. .

Appointed as Game Warden. James Hunham of near Leesburg has been apponited a deputy ame and fish warden for Northern Indiana. : Oy R Now it is said the gsoldiers’ bonus measure which so overwhelmingly passed the lower hoise of congress will superceed the tax bill in the senate, ; - : : |

- Check- Worker at Howe. Howe merchants have been victims'’ of fraudulent 'check artists a man and a woman who have made small purchases and paid for them with checks drawn on the bagk there for amounts much larger thdn the sums spent. Tr\ each case the check was accepted an change givén without question. A few days later the checks came back marked no funds but the man and woman had disappedred. - . Work on Middlebury Highway. - Weather permitting the Seamaun Constructio ncompany of Goshen wil. next week resume grading on the highway forming part’ of the GoshenMiddlebury all-paved route work ol which, stopped last fall. = , During the season the Seamon company will finish this improvemeni any build the east Lincoln avenue highway to the county line the Fish Laks ‘ road and the short stretch of Elkhar! LaGrange county road. ' . MeAdoo Wins Georgia. William-G. McAdoo won a sweeping victory in the Georgia democratic presidential primary practically coimn plete returns showed. ' McAdoo carried 117 counties : anc his only opponent Senator Underwcoy of Alabama won 32 counties.

NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS State of Indiana, Noble County, $5: i In the Noble Circuit Court .- May Term 1924 o Cause No. 8788 , ¢ To Quiet Title L Mary O’Connor, o - . Ve ! ' ; L Thomas Barnett, et al. - - - Now comes the palintiff by W. H Wigton her attorney and files her complaint herein together with the af fidavit of a competent person that the residence upon diligent inquiry is unknown of the following named defendants o wit: - : Thomas Barnett, Christian R. Barnett, Mrs.. Thomas - Barnett whose christian name is unkncwn to plaintiff;: +that the names of the defendants are unknown and that they are believel ‘to be noh-residents of the State of Indiana, sued in this action by the following names and designations to wit: The unknown . hus‘bands and wives, respectively of tie following named persons, to wit: Thomas Barnett, Christian R. Par nett, Mrs. Thomas .Barnett whose christian name is unknown to piain tiff; the names of all of whom are anknown to plaintiff; the unknown widowers and widogs, children, descendants and heirs surviving spouses creditors and administrators of the estate, devisees, legateés, trustees anc executors of the last wills and testa ‘ments, successors in interest and assigns, Tespectively, of the following named and glesignatefd deceased persons, to ' wit: Thomas Barnet! Christian: R. Barnett, Mrs. Thoma: Baruftt, whose .christian name is un known to plaintiff; all of the women once known by any of the names and de signations above stated, whose names may have been changed, and whn arc now known by#® other names the names of all of whom are unknown to plaintiff; the spouses of all of the persons above named, described anc designated as defendants to this action, who are married, the names of all of whom are unknown to plaintiff; all persons and corporations who assert or might assert any title claim or interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint in this action by, under or through any of the defendants to this action named, described and designated in said complaint, the names of all of whom are unknown to plaintiff, - That this action is for the purposc of quieting title to real estate in the State of Indiana that a cause of action exists against all of said defen|dants; that all of said defendants are necessary parties to said action anc that they are believed to be non-resi: dents of the State of Indiana. - o

The following real estate in Noble County - State of Indiana is described in said complaint to wit:

Lots Twenty-Five and Twenty Six (25 & 26) in Straus’s Addition to the town now city of Ligonier. - This action in instituted and prosecuted by said plaintiff for the purpose of-quieting her title to the real estate above described as against all demands, claims and claimants what soever, : : e

' Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants that unless they bc and appear .on the 12th day of May 1924 same being the Ist dav of the May Term 1924 of the Noble Circuil Court of Indiana, to be begun anc holden on the 12@_ day of May 1924 at the Court House in the town of Albion, in said County and State ang answer or demur to said complaint. the same.will be heard and determin; ed in their absence.

In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the sead of said Court at the office of the Clerk thereof in the town of Albion, Indiana this 3rd day of March 1924. :

(Seal) . Isaac Deter, Clerk -of ; the Noble Circuit Court W. H. Wigton Attorney for Plaintiff | ' : . Ba3w

Bake Sale. : The ladies aid of the Richville church will conduct a bake sale Wednesday afternoon March 26 at the Jel White Groceteria. ' - i Jackson will paint your automobile and make it look like new, b2atf The label on your paper will tell you when your subscription expired or will expire. . | R O eo oy ; ~ For Rent The W. C. Vanderford farm in York Township. Crop or cash rent. 160 acres fine buildings. Chester Vanderford. ' ~ . Bibét ,W”‘»"’"""'M' S i AR SR

- (oolidge Gets Plurality. . Senator Robert M. LaFollette » of Wisconsin is runner-up in the North Dakota republican presidential prvimary. He outdistanced Senator Hiram Johnson by more than 3,006 votes. President Coolidge won & minority victory over the'two senators holding a margin over LaFollett: of more than 14,000 votes. With al but 228 of the state’s 2,057 precinect: counted the vote stood: Coolidge 47, 947 ; LaFollette 34,096; Johnson 30, 263.- The final count will change this result but litfle, politicians declared Fights Fire; May Die. * C. M. Smith, insurance agent, whd has resided at Winona for severa, yeéars, is dangerously ill with pneumonia, the result of exposure suffered when his home burned. Mr. Smith aideq firemen in their efforts to pre: vent the flames from spreading tc other cottages and contracted a severe cold, which developed info pneumonia. ! %

~ Not While 'm &overnor. - “Yhere will be no' prize fights in Indiana as long as I am governor” Governor McCray said when inermed of the proposed Gibbons-Carbentier match at Michigan City for July 4th “This matter has not been officially brought to my attention, but my position is exactly where it was before The state laws prohibits prize fights but permits boxing exhibitions.” .. Find Headless Body. The decapitated body of an unknowy suicide was held in the morgue af Hammond while authorities attempted to establish his identity. . ; -The. man, according to authgrities! took his life by lying down on the E J.-& E. railroad with his neck across the rail. He wasg apparently aboul %'mid«.‘;-le age. . | v Al ‘ . - Northern indiana Deaths. . . Mrs. Susanne Kine, 56, pneumonia, Howe, she was a native of DeKalk county; Mrs. Matfie Gleason, 45, of Wells county; W. V. Driseoll, &S :ip(;]'iie.{:y,. veteran B. &. O. passengel engindéer, Garrett. Mrp Driscoll had been engineer on the B. &0. erack train ,the Capitol Limited. e

: . Mortgage Excihptions.. = Cail at the office of the Home Realty and Investment Company 2nd Floox sheets Buildings and we will make out your mortgage exemption and file it with the County Auditor for you. ~ This must be done during March o: April » 3bhii L e For Clerk of the Noble Cireunit Court. I wish to announce that I am’'a candidate for the Republican renomination for_ Clerk of the Noble. Circuit Court of Noble County .and I alsc thank my many good friends for thc past favors which they have !:ndered me and wil appreciate any = :sistanec given me in the future. . : . ISAAC DETER o ihtt

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