Ligonier Banner., Volume 59, Number 37B, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 November 1925 — Page 3

Search Your Atti Fortunes. Have Been Found on Old Envelopes Many old stamps, both U. S. and Confederate, are worth from $50.t0 $5.000. The hobby of stamp collecting,is of far | greater importance nowadays than ini times past when it was generally considered as a pastime for schoolboys only. ’ Today collectors eagerly seek out and | pay huge prices for those stamps which | are scarce to the point of being worth hundreds or ever thousands of dollars. Last year in Paris at a stamp sale one stamp of British Guiana was sold forl s32,soo—this bLeing the highest price ! ever paid for a single stamp. People‘ who make a bonfire of “grandfather’s letters” do not realize they may be burning rare stamps, which if sold might make them rich. :

Make a thorough search through attics and storerooms for cld letters mailed {from 1845 to 1870. Keep the letters if you wish, but send the envelopes (or {lded letters) to Mr. Harold C. Brooks, Box 823, Marshall, Michigan. Mr. Brooks, who is mayor of his city. is a private collector and is said to pay better prices than a dealer. During the past twelve vears he has paid thousands of dollars for envelopes bearing old stamps. He specializes in United States and Confederate stamps, but aiso coliects Canadian and other foreign issues, provided they are on the original envelopes and mailed not later than 1870. Loose stamps he does not buy except very old issues unused or mounted collections formed before 1880. Revenue stamps such -as found on old photographs. mortgages, deeds, etc., are not wanted. Other things like old coins, Confedzrate money, old relics, may have value, but he is not interested in these. - v Shown below are illustrations.of a few rare stamps and the amounts Mr. Brooks agrees to pay to anyone who may find them. Beside these are many others of equal value. ' A

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Beside the rarities, Mr. Brooks buys many of the commoner stamps, so nothing should be thrown away even though many stamps appear to be exact duplicates. Stamps should not be cut off as any stamp on the original envelope is worth more, collectors being interested in the postmark as well as the stamp. Nothing should be written on the face of the envelope. When making up a bunch of envelopes, be sure they are well wrapped and protected with cardboard to prevent their becoming wrinkled .in transit. If you have reason to believe your envelopes are of special value send them by registered or insured mail. The advertising manager of this paper has known Mr. Brooks for many years, and you may place fullest confidence in his integrity. On receipt of envelopes he will examine them and report promptly their value. If they are not purchased, he guarantees to return them in good order. -If you have no old letters written during or before the Civil War, show this notice to your friends—especially those whose families have lived in the same house for ' several generations. Many old families, old banks and law firms still have stored away hundreds of letters, waiting either to be burned or sold for large sums. Before destroying such envelopes or folded letters inwvestigate their value. Mr. Brooks’ address is as follows: . HAROLD C. BROOKS, - Box 823 , Marshall, Mich.

X i £ " @@.ﬁ 5 CHD BUSNBG '. N # g Printing IR BT SWTHES { T sttpeecs | sle,asuddy, arcangod od miatter §o worge Poak The Gullty o o business is often judged by the ﬁyﬁq of your atationery — foferior printing gives ae : lmpreseion of oheapness that is htrdd;o. m'cl-emxm2 t:&gh R, | We produce only Quisl am indxponsive hendbill or & : lottorbead in oclofs, i you order it from us you will be ré ol getting good work. : ‘Kupw how'’ that enables o getpat oally §ood priP Al d of priating thet = P&Vﬁ

E. R. Kurtz ® MAuctioneer Z2none No. 65, Ligonier.” 5" T R 5 S B O N £A £ R TR R R LI M S Those desiring Christmas cards, call at Banner office and see an exceptionally fine line of samples to select from, or call phone 13 and a representative will eall,

HAD FEW COMFORTS IN EARLY CHURCHES Colonial Worshipers Made Little of Cold. Eating together after the church services was a very common practice in thinly settled regions during Colonial days and it affoded a good opportunity for the gratification of the social instincet. :

To Sheldon church in South Carolina there came seldom less than sixty or seventy carriages, but a neighbor planter was accustomed to entertain the whole assembly, Those of higher social position he invited to his own table, while common folk were provided for by his overseer at the planter’'s expense. At great Quaker meetings a similar unstinted hospitality was dispensed by the. wealthier Friends. In New England care was taken at first that every family should live so near to the meeting house that people could attend church without straining the fiber of the Fourth commandment. But when the common lands came to be more and more divided, and farms and out-hamlets were settled, people had to i‘ravel farther.

In the winter time the people from a distance spent the time between the two services by the fireside in the kitchen of the parsonage house, or in that of some neighbor who heaped up wood against the great back log to cheer the worshipers when they came chilled to the marrow from the frosty ailr of the meeting house. The custom of building churches without appliances for warming them was very general, especially in the colonies north of Pennsylvania, and was no doubt brought from KEurope; one may yet sit through service in fireless churches in Holland, Switzerland and elsewhere on the Continent. In a climate so severe as that of New England it must have added much to the grizzly rigor .of the religious observances. - Judge Sewall records in his diary on a certain Sunday in January, 1686, when Boston harbor was covered with ice: :

“This day is so cold that the sacramental bread is frozen pretty hard and rattles sadly as broken into . the plates.” : Though in most places, before the invention of stoves, ne one ever dreamed of warming the building, yet measures were sometimes taken to mitigate the cold; the first church in Lynn, for example, was made to descend to low eaves on the side expose to the northwest wind, and the ﬁog sunk below the ground. : In New York in 1714 servarﬁ&,zée described as carrying foot stoves to church for the use of their masters and mistresses, and foot stoves were likewise used in New England in the Eighteenth century. In one Quaker meeting in Pennsylvania it was provided in 1699 that a fire should be kept in an upper room “for such as are weak through sickness, or age, or disease, to warm at, and come down again modestly.” But at a later period we find some of the Friends’ meeting houses warmed with German stoves. - -

The southern parish churches were probably not generally warmed, but it was provided in a colonial parish, a 8 far south as North Carolina, that the clerk and lay reader should also build fires wherever they were needed. There were even some exceptional towns in New Engiand that had iren stoves in their meeting houses as early as 1730, though most’ of.them resisted the improvement until after the beginning of the Nineteenth century.

Turks Make Poor Farmers

In the New world frontiers do not mean much. In eastern Europe they do. Perhaps the Turkish-Bulgarian frontier offers’the most striking example of the difference between races. Leaving Svilengrad, a Bulgarian frontier town, one motors out past rolling fields of wheat and maize. Then all df a sudden a broken-down ramshackle thatched hut indicates that one has entered Turkey. What a change! For miles in front and around there is undulating barren country quite uncuitivated. The Turkish frontier guards live in a state of absolute primitiveness, their main nourishment being black bread and coffee. Turkey in Europe was never thickly populated but the lack of any kind of agricultural implements, coupled with the natural indolence of the Turk, goes to make a state of little relleved desolation.

Unconvincing

Sir John Lavery, the famous painter, tells a story about an old Scottish gardener in the employ of a friend of his, who went one day to an exhibition of pictures in London. Among them was one labeled “The Fall.” The gardener surveyed this so intently that his employer was moved to ask him his opinion of it, I think no great things of it,”” was the reply.

“Why, sir, Eve is tempting Adam wi’ an apple of a. variety that wasna known until about twenty years ago.”

Why, Indeed!

When Jones came home one evening his wife met him at the gate and exclaimed, “It's lovely evening. Let's get up a picnic!” Jones looked hopefully at the sky, but there was not a cloud in sight coming to his rescue. “What do you say?’ persisted Mrs. Jones. The poor man was tired, the evening was warm, but he had to say something. He said, “Why get up a picnic? We haven’t any enemies.” Rattlesnake Bite Fatal, John V. Felthouse, 77 years old, a former resident of Elkhart, died at his home near Largo, Fla., shortly after he had been bitten by a rattlesnake, . : Pay your Banner Subscription NOW

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’ Signs are Being Distributed. An attractive Indiana outline mark {er. bearing appropriate warnings to motorists, is the new style of ‘x'oad signs officially adopted by the Hoo:icr Automobile Association of mnorti o Indiana. Approximately - 504 of (uo new signs, which comprises il first shipment of the road mariiors, was Teceived last week in Sou:l: Eend at the association’s headquaric 's. . The signs, which are of heavy galvanized iron, and 18x27 inches in size, are painted red, white and biue. Six different types of warning notices were included in the shipment.

: Ligenier Girl Honored. - Miss Dorothy Slabaugh and Miss Dorothy Clarke, of: Ligonier, are members of a committee of fifteen girls named to make arrangements for the nmiidwest convention of Women’s Self Govérnment Associations to be lhLeld at Indiana University in April, according to Miss THuelda Davis, of Muncie, president of the local W. S, G. A. Miss Slabaugh has been appointed chairman of the decoration committee and Miss (larke will act as chairman of the reception cocmmittee, : Armistice Proclamation, Suspension of all activities in the state for a period of two minutes. heginning at 11 am, was urged by Gov. Jackson in his armistice day proclamation, : : The proclamation urged all schoolg industries and public = organizationg to conduct suitable ceremonies. : Mrs. George Pincheon who submitted to an operation in Goshen hospital has returned home.* :

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MORE SHARES OF Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. ~Cumulative Freferred Stock ARE NOW FOR SALE This Stock pays dividends every 3 mnnﬂ]s, on january lst, April Ist, ~ July Ist actber list. In a year the diyidends amounts to u /0 your money

Indiana & Michigan Flectric Co. Preferred Stock is not a risky speculation or get-rich-quick scheme.

It is a SAFE, DEPENDABLE INTESTMENT. It is not an uncertainty; it is not a mere possibility. You will have no waiting for

mines to be dug or wells drilled or factories built before you be- | gin to get dividends. If you invest in only 10 shares of this Preferred Stock you would

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Buy your shares from any employe of the Company —they are our salesmen

Nappanee Boy is Hurt,

Farrell Miller, fourteen years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Omos Miller, of Nappanee, was seriously injured Sat-nrd-ay afternoon while piaying with on explosive of some kind. The boy was playing near his home when the accident oceurred. Little is known of 'the accident, except that the hoy had some kind of an. expiosive .in ‘a glass bottle.

The boys’ right thumb was torn off, his right hand. was badly mangled, his face cut, and llis right leg and foot were cut and injured. Pieces of glass were taken from the wounds. Dan Stump Makes a (all; i Daniel Stump of Washington township, Noble county, was a caller at the News-Times on Thursday. Mr. Stump was county commissioner for Noble county as a democrat and left a record for honest dealings . that could be followed by his suceessors regardless of party and the county would profit. Mr. Stump has two sons, leading attorneys in the state, cne in Auburn, the other in Indiangzpolis. Both sons received their early iraining on the old farm in Washington township.—Goshen News-Times.

Bank Book Feuand, : r -A deposit book of the Sparta State bank, of Cromwell, bearing the name of Jay Stults was found on the street. Tuesday and brought to the Banner office. , : May Lose EYésighi, ' Charles Polk 11 of Rochester probably will lose the sight of his right eye. A match fired from an. air rifle by a playmate struck the youth in the eyee'n’® .

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~ South Shore Improvements. ’ Many improvements and cottages are being added on the South .Shore! at Lake Wawasee: Guy Dausman of:s Goshen is building a cottage on the!’ old Lake View hotel site just next to] 'the Waco pavilion and. Mattie Kayser | owner and manager of the Tavern for- i merly Brunjes Park is making ext‘gn-f sive improvements on 'his hotel. All? cottagers residing in the sti[:tch of | land between the Tavern and the ! Burke cottage now| heve sea walls | many of them being built this fall. | Among those putting in ‘he new _walls‘: are L. H. Brakes, Johu Blough, Fred ! Dresch, Joe Phillips, C. M. Baker, | Joe B. Workman John Brunjejs, i : L e Killed While Hunting., g H, W. McEKowen 135 of Fort Wayne was instantly kille:id while huntingi ten miles north of t.pat city aSturday.} A charge of shot from a shotgun en- ! tered McKowen's head. The gun had ' slipped from the .hands of Russel} Straub 16 as he was attempting to regain his balance when his 'footfi slipped on icy ground. The gun fe_}l= lagainst a tree and was ‘discharged. i

One the Movies Missed.

Secil Rowe 22. of| Elkhart suffered | but slight injuries in one of the most! spectacular aut'omobéile accidents ever | staged there. Rowe failed to make 5,* turn at a street corner and the car | shot across a lawn, hurdled a retain- ! ing wall standing t}f'o feet above ihe? surface of the lawn dropped with a! splintering crash 16/feet. - » a The ladies of the Burr Oak church - will conduct a bake sale at the Jet White Groceteria Saturday forenoon November T7th. 1

be entitled to receive dividends every 3 months amounting to $l% 50-and consider this care

fully, it would be money for which you would not have to do a tap of work. Supervision by the Public Service Commission of Ind.

lana and the Public Utilities Commission of Michigan serves to protect the interests alike of the Customers, Investors and the Company. :

EVERY INGREDIENT OFFICIALLY :APPRbVED BY U. S. FOOD AUTHORITIES

We maintain a Resale Dept. at our offices for the benefit of local stockholders who may wish to sell their shares

- E&ED Doughnats, biscuits, watifles, pies, Hot bread every day, | Give the family some surprise : Made the Davis way. | Bake it BEST with * _ BAKING X/ POWDER

~ Qutstanding Facts About Prevferred Stock of Indiana & Michigan Electric Company

You do not have to pay the present Normal Federal Income Tax on the dividends. i .

We Maintain a Resale Department for the benefit of local stockholders who may wish to sell their shares.

This Stock is Fully Paid and NonAssessable and is redeemable at the option of the Company at $llO.OO and dividend per share.

Your Dividend Money is Paid By Check. You have no coupons or ownership certificates to make out. Your name is registered on our books and your dividends come to you through the mail. .

This Stock is Cumulative, therefore the Company must pay the dividends in full before any dividends can be paid on the Common Stock. ' L

This Stock is Preferred as to dividends over the Common Stock. It ~lis also preferred as to assets in case of liquidation, to the extent of $lOO.OO and dividends per share.