Ligonier Banner., Volume 59, Number 29A, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 September 1925 — Page 2
and L. P. BLUE Dealers in Farm land and City Properties Wehave for sale twenty farmsin Noble, Lagrange Elkhart, Kosciusko, and Dekalb Counties, ranging from 10 to 160 acres at bargain prices. We also handle city property. - Money to Loan —. on Farms at " 5% Come and see [us if you want to buy orsell a farm ~ Headquarters at CITIZENS BANK
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Henney & Surfus Funeral Directors Fine Motor Equipment Phone 495 Ligonier, Ind.
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Peblished every Monday and Thursaay and entered in the Postofiice at Ligoaler, Ind., a 8 second class maties. :
'To Compete for Free Trip.
. Twenty-five boys .aud girls in the Noble county's two dairy calf clubs L\fiill compete for a fl‘eei‘ll‘ip with all expenses paid to the 1925 national dairy exposition -at Indianapolis, October 10 to 17, according to K. W. Rose, county agricultural agent. This trip will be awarded =by Schlosser Bros., butter manufacturers, Lo‘the Calf club member exhibiung the best calf at the Kendallvilie fair, September 21 to 25. Dairy calf menbers in 32 othier counties of the state also will compete for these trips at their respective fairs. 'To the Indiana b(}y of girl showing the best calt at the naiional dairy exposition in competition with club caives, from other counties of the state, a $25 sweepstake prize -will he awarded.
& (hild Narrowly Escapes Deati. Catherine, the baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Calbeck, narrowly escaped death by poisoning {ast week when it obtained a package of disinfectant while playing at its home in Cromwell. :
Together with its two little sisters, the baby was playing in the barn, when in some - manner it secured the package of powder, and began eating it, The older children noticed the discoloration on the baby’s face and immediately called at mo{her, who in turn summoned neighbors and calied Dr. Lane of Ligonier.
The child’s stomach was pumped and by prompt action of the ladies called at first in administering cmetics, little Miss Catherine was saved _from .an untimely death.— Ccromwell Advance. o
- sam Axworthy’s Race, Sam Axworthy, the George D. Foster horse, won second money in the 2:25 trot at the Goshen fair Wednesday. Following is the result : Birst raece, 2:25 trot, purse $3OO. The Compass, b.g,, Stuckman 1 1 2 Sam Axworthy, b.g, Beck... 2 & 1 Wax Tell, blg:, Turner ... 4.2 23 Hattie Medium, b.m., Cullins 3 3 4 Time: 2:18%, 2:17% and 2:20, Spurgeon Estate Divided.
The heirs of the Amon Spurgeon estate had appraisers meet and divide the big acreage of Spring Branch farms, Theodore Spureon receives the part called the big tenant farm; Grace Spurgeon received the Rose farm, tenanted now by Mr. and Mrs. Crago, and Fred and Ernest the old homestead. KEd Smith of Ligonier was one of the appraisers.:
Axworthy With Two Seconds
George. D. Foster horse Sam Axworthy made two races at the Goslien fair last week taking second money in each event, Bingaline Lew Stuckman’s pacer won the 2:25 pace in 2:141 Roxie Hart owned by John Abshire won the 2:20 pace in 2:13% These animals are all driven by Earl Beck and all go at the tNorth Manchester fair this week. '
Barn is Burned.
Spoxi_taneous combustion of new hay is believed to be the cause of the loss of the W. L. Matthews barn eight miles southwest of Warsaw when fire razed the gti‘ucture,‘ Two cows were burned 4 new hayloader and other farm implements. The loss is estimated at $1,500.
Otto Long Dead.
Otto .Long, aged 35 :@ years, well known Kendallville she merchant and cobbler, and a lifelong resident of that city, died Thursday morning at Lakeside hospital, following an operation for appendicitis to which he submitted August. :
Leave Mountain Home.
In a letter to the Banner it is learned that Rev. and Mrs J. S. Schrock; formerly of Ligonier, have left their log cabin resort near Fletcher, N. C, and returned to their home in Gainesville, Fla. William Has a Garden, William H. Baker has a fine garden and a big crop of vegetables. The gentleman presented the Banner with some elegant tomatoes and his friends have been generally remembered in the generous distribution. . G. A. R, Convention, . The Banner is indebted to John H. Hoffman for copies of the. Grand Rapids. Mich., newspapers containing news of the national encampment of, the G, A. R. being held there. Given a Nice New Dress, The Bothwell cottage at Ogden Island, Wawasee, has just been given a new dress of p#int and is greatly improved in appearance. Harry Mentzer did the work. : To Meet Thursday Evening, The Perry Township Farm Bureau will hold its next meeting at the Centralized school building next Thursday evening, September 10. Commissioners in Session, The Noble county commissioners are in session today at Albion. Tuesddy is road day. : ~ Whizz-z-bank! “The Shock Punch” this week., :
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DO NOT LAUGH AT HIM Advice to Parents Regarding the Treatment of Small Children Who o Are Shy . Parents would better beware before they laugh at the shyness of a little Angelo Patri one . of Newi York's best known educators Wan'na‘i in an articls in this “week’'s Liberty, What you think are the child’s happiest times, he says, may, in reality, be days and nights of terror. R “It is only the adult who can look down the vista of years which veils his childhoods in rainbows who can speak of those joy-brimming years,” says the educator. “The adult memory selects what it chooses the pleasant thing always. Children have no such prospective and no such p'()‘*-.\‘(*!‘. Their troubles are present and real and their pain is poignant, “Pimid children suffer the most. Al lthe fears that imagination and ignorance and helplessness can conjure (lo,a_"the timid child’s days and make his nights dreadful, The brewing thunderstorm becomes the threatening casastrophe of the. last trump because '::mnchpdy more earnest than understanding told a child who had no background of interpretation the story of the day of judgment. The crude and hungry imagination seized and devoured it in all literalness fire and cathquake and destruction, s *“And then a reat fear was born, a fear that stayed long after the details- of iits creation had vanished. ’
‘lnstead: of lecturing children upon .their timidity set the stage so that they will almost without knowing it overcome their difficulty. A childhood spent under the shadow of tear casts a spell on the years that come -after. 'There is nothing too much for ais te do to lift it .
Short of Badge.
Harold Knudson South Bend special police officer was stripped of his badge and held to th‘g ‘St. Josephn county grand jury on charges of accepting a bribe, : Knudson admitts he accepted $5O to “forget” convicting evidence he had obtained in a rum raid Lawrence Lane police chief said. : .
Police belicve the grand jury investigation may result in indictments of several persons including officers and laWyers. o Knudson said he accepted the bribe from ‘Leo Cook attorneyv for William Gergacz charged with illegal possession of wine.
Mint Growers Hold Qil,
With the price of peppermint oil jco.ntinui‘ng to rise mint raisers have decided to keep their stocks in the bank vaults for safekeeping. Practically the entire supply of the United States comes from this section of Indiana. The normal price of oil ranges from $3.756 to $5 a pound but quotations are from $l5 to $15.25 for natural and $l6 and $16.25 Jfor - redistilled, Some however refuse to sell even at these figures being confident it will rise to $2O a pound, ' '
S. L. Fryer buyer of this city says the- bank vaults in this section are g()rgecl with the oil, the owners retusing to:sell.
Gives Home and All His Money
Paul Wurtzler 50 cof Fort Wayne has surrendered his home and all his slender savings in an effort to make amends to Edward Richard age 19 who was struck and seriously injured by Wurtzler’'s automobile July 9. The story of Wurtzler's penitence and his efforts to right the wrong told in city court when he went on trial on charges of driving. an: automobile while intoxicated brought him leniency and he was fineid $25 and costs.
Attendance Figures,
Here is the best available statement on paid attendance at the 52nd Elkhart County fair. It is not accurate but is thought to be approximately correct: 2
: Day Night Tuesday ..o oo o 776 Wednesday ... ... 1514 1104 Thursday\.......... vßowanl hilad 5082 Treasurer Manrow had Thursday night received ‘about $9,000. S
{Bubbles Wins Easily.
Earl Beck driving Bubbles owned by Dr. W. ‘A Shobe of Ligonier easily won the 2:14 pace purse $3OO at Goshen fair Thursday taking it in straight heats in 2:15 2:14% and 2:15%, There were four starters and each finished in the same place in each heat but that did not mean each heat was not a good race.
Shoes Valuable There,
When railroad police officers found R. E. Emerson wearing a pair of stolen shoes and ch'arged him with theft, he confessed he broke into the Wabash freight depot at St. Joe .He was sent to the reformatory for a term of one to eight years by Judge Endicott in the DeKalb circuit court,
Find Poisoned Meat,
Poisoned meat was found under trees along Hamar street in Fort Wayne evidently placed there by some person who intended a wholesale kiliing of dogs and cats in the neighborhood at the possible expense of taking the lives of children in the vicinity who might have found the meat. ,_ s i Mailing Letter Causes Alarm. - Efforts of a woman said to be from Howe and employed in a local factory to mail a letter in a Sturgis fire alarm hox sent in a false alarm and caused the. fire department to make a run to the corner, Richard Dix ni “The Shock Punch’’ Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. J
THE PENCIL MAKES A FARM PAY BETTER
Farm Accounting Reveals Losing . Methods and Points Way to ~ Bigger Profits. 13! —— | j (From Banker-Farmer) A farm cannot properly be’ called successful unless it pays a fair rate of interest on the investment and returns fair wages for ‘the farmer’s labor. Agticulture is considered by all odds the most important industry in the world, and yet in mo other industry is the business end so neglected. It is common to find a farmer with an investment of fifteen to twenty thousand dollars, yet ‘does he keep books? Perhaps he may jot down a note now and then of an important deal, but this is of no value in an analysis of his business as a whole. No other industry, however small, is carried’ on without books of some SOFt. -
Farming is a business and to be suecessful must be conducted in a businesslike way. The business man’s mind should have indelibly printed upon it two questions: What profit is my business making? How can that profit be increased? To know the latter, one must find out the former; and to find out about profits requires the keeping of books. / i It is not necessary for a farmer to have a course in bookkeeping. = Al most every agricultural college in the country has issued a simplified farm accounting book which it sells at cost, and only a few minutes are. required each day to jot down the day’s happenings. ; . : : : Accounts -Increase Profits -
Instances number a thousandfold where farmers have profited by kncw-
ing their business. Accounts kept by nineteen farmers in Illinois led them to improve the organization and operation of their farms in ways that added approximately $650 to their average net income in 1922, the seventh year they had kept accounts,.
* An Jowa farmer found at the end of the first year he kept books that crops fed to livestock brought more money than when sold outright. His figures showed that his cows were poor; ‘compared with other farms in the state, he found the number of acres cultivated per man on his farm, as ‘well as the number of acres pér horse, were below average. He rented more land and replanned his fields, so that the crop ‘areas per man and horse were increased. He sold some of his scrubs and bought good cows. The second year his income from the farm, after paying all expenses and interest on the money invested, had been increased over $350. .
i Costs Can Be Regulated ¢ “I have-discovered,” says one farm bookkeeper, “that the kind of man you have on a job, as well as the particular team, often makes quite a variation in the cost of performing ‘certain tasks. I have learned from ‘the pages of my book that if I could have increased the yield of my wheat ‘field by two bushels and my corn by five bushels I would have realized a substantial profit from them.” | While the farmers may not be able to fix prices on their products, they do have a: voice in_determining the costs of production. To reduece this cost they must first know what the costs are. &' Wiy o
.~ The number of farmers who are keeping books on their business has increased remarkably in recent years, but the number of businesslike farmers is woefully small when listed alongside the sum total of the farmers in the country. . . Inventory Is Indispensable
The basis of any system of farm accounting is the annual property list or inventory. It is the starting point of the farm records. One must take into consideration decreases or increases in the value of all property owned to gauge the progress of the business. Lacking facts as to the value of his property, no business man can form an accurate estimate of how he stands financially. Increased cash may be due to property which was sold, or increased debts may be due to improvements made. If a farmer is falling behind, the inventory will emphasize this fact. Often when a man is discouraged and thinks he ‘is making no progress, his inventories will tell him that he is better off than he thought. . At the end of each year a financial statement is drawn off. This is the farmer’s rating and no farmer aith a good financial statement need fear walking into a bank and asking for a loan. : ;
BANKERS HELP
A bank.in Monrovia, Ind., tests seed corn for farmers. A basement room was fitted out last season for the purpose and 25,000 ears were tested for fifty-six farmers. One-fourth of the seed tested last year was unfit for seed. This year the percentage will run even higher. The work is done under the supervision of the high school agricultural teacher. He reports that the community will have a surplus of seed corn this year.
The banks of Conway, Ark. have offered prizes for the most marketable swect potatoes produced on one acre of land. A first prize of $l5O is of. fered, along with three district prizes of $5O each. The county agent and the banks are working otut the details The County Bankers Association will help to employ a full time county leader this year for boys’ and . girls club work in Calhoun, Cherokee ang Buena Vista counties, lowa. -
Find old Cemetery.
In an old cemetery site at Kendallville the graves of seventeen Civil War veterans were located. »
See Richard Dix, the most likable man -on the screen at Crystal this week, .
Kimmell News Miss Dorothy Schoaf of Huntington is visiting her aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs, Sam Oates. : Mrs, John Love has returned home after visiting relatives in Nappanee the past week, =
Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Clark entertained Mr. and- Mrs. Mrs. Edwin Moats and family of Sherwood Ohio Mrs, R. W. Clark and sons Edgar and- Arland, Mr. and Mre. Lloyd Goudy and daughter Lora Jean and Miss Beryl Clark of Goshen Sunday to dinner. = - Mr. "and Mr.s Howard Love have now occupied the Whirledge property.
Mrs. Dan Martindale had the misfortune of fracturing her hip Sunday afternoon she is being cared for in the Goshen hospital, - Mrs. Hutsinpillar and daughter Ina of Oaks North Dakota spent-a few days visiting eRv. Hutsinpillar.
Miss Grace ‘Davis of Eldell North Dakota is’ visiting her sister Mrs. Hutsinptllar. . . . . 7 The Wolf Kendall and Kerschner reunion , was 'held with Mrs. Mina Bartley Sunday, 78 were present.
-Mrs. Ella Hoover Mr. and Mrs. Clint Ott and family spent Sunday at the home of Frederick Ott of Green Township. : : ; ~ Sam Oates was a caller at Huntington Sunday. Mr. and Mrs, Melvin Penrol and daughteer Vivian of Pennsylvania cpent Sunday at the home of James Spring and family, . Mr. ‘and Mrs. Will Schlabach Miss Bessie ‘Norris of Geneseo Illinois and her mother Mrs. Marion Norris called on friends and relatives in South Bend Friday. P
New Ford Cars. * Curiosity of a lot of people is going to be satisfied this week. Anyway indications point in that direction_ : ' :
Ever since announcement of the improved Ford cars was made just about every man, woman and child in town has been on the alert for a glimpse of the new cars. : i
A few of the Touring Cars reached dealers the last week, but not near enough of them were distributed to satisfy the curiosity of the populace. In- the first place, every dealer expe‘rieqced some difficulty in securing cars some were only able to get one and in the second place ,after the dealer got the car he had a hard time keeping it someone wanted to buy it right away. =
Several hundred people however, have been able'to get a peep at the new touring cars and. everyone of them is firmly convinced that they sure are attractive automobiles. :
Ford dealers of Ligonier are expecting the coming week will bring them all the new body types, both open and closed. If this transpires, it is certain that the dealer show roms are going to be the most popular places: in town, for everyone is eager to see and inspect all the new Fords. . :
Girls Jump From Street Cars.
Miss Grace Mast was seriously hurt and "‘fier sister Miss Jennie was also injured when they jumped from a Goshen city street- car which caught on fire when a fuse had blown out. The girls seeing the fire became frightened and jumped while the car was still in motion, - S
Sells Lake Cottage
The UzMcMurtrie cottage at Pickwick Lake Wawasee has been sold to a Clinton Indiana man for $20,000.
~Barney Kramer is not able to do much work these days, The other day he fell from a load of gravel while engaged at street labor and suffered quite severe injuries to his back. -
W. H. WIGTON Attorney-at-law ; Office in Zimmerman Block LIGONIER, IND
Dr. Maurice Blue - VETERINARIAN Office: Justamere Farm. fPhone: Ligonier 757
Wind Mills, Tanks, Pumps, Water Systems, Etc. | Well Drilling s . Phone 333 LIGONIER ' Next door to Ford Garage
Howard White] WAWAKA, INDIANA -~ AUCTIONEER Phone 2 on 1 Wawaka
E. R. Kurtz " Auctioneer ™ Pnone No. 65, Ligonier.
Harry L. Benner Auctioneer Upen for all engagemends Wolf Lake, Indiana Both Noble and Whitley County Phones
W. R. JACKSON [rustee’ Perry, Townshsp Nfiice Mier State Bank, Ligonier -
J. L. HENRY | : ~J. C. KIMMELL Home Realty and Investment Co. . FARM LAND BULLETIN
40 acre farm in LaGrange County. 434 miles from Topeka.: $2BOO will buy 40 acre tract in York Township, . 40 acre poultry farm near Lake Wawasee. Will sell or trade for larger farm. ; 40 acre farm near Cromwell without buildings. : 35 acre tract on Crooked lake. Steuben County. . . . : 40 acre farm 1% miles south of Cromwell. Good buildings. 147 acre farm near Cromwell on improved road, Good buildings.. Some timber. A small down payment takes it. Long time on balance, e 100 acre farm in Swan Township. 30 acres choice onion ground, ' Balance clay soil. Good buildings. . Will be sold to right party on small down payment, fi 6 acre tract within 1 mile of Ligonier. Good buildings. 5% acre tract with. buildings near Cromwelll. - : IQ'acre tract on Toledo and Chicago Pike near Ligonier, . 80 acre farm south of Kim- - mell. Good ‘soil and all up-to- ) dae buildings. Terms, - 145 acre farm .on Lincoln Highway. 25 acres good onion land. Good buildings.
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75 acre farm on the SpartaPerry Township line. Priced to sell’ qui'ck.~ : : . 120 acres within one mile of the Lincoln Highway. 54 acres onion and mint land. Private lake. 7 o ~ 28% acre tract near Indian Village. Fair buildings, 162 acre farm 'joining City limits of Ligonier. ] . 287 acre stock and grain farm in Sparta township. 240 acre: dairy farm fully equipped. Liberal terms. - - 15‘4‘ acres in Orange Township. Two sets of buwildings. Priced to sell, i 102% acre farm north of Pierceton. Good buildings and soil. Would trade for smaller farm. - - : - 60 acre stock and grain farm within 1 mile of Ligonier at a bargain. , - 80 acre farm in Elkhart township. Fertile soil and good buildings. : . 70 acre farm near Diamond Lake. » 80 acre farm on State- highway 2 miles north of Albion, 63 acre onion and mint farm in York Township. 45 acres under cultivation.