Ligonier Banner., Volume 59, Number 39A, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 November 1925 — Page 2

Bt @ Prosperity - The squirrel 1s smart enough to gather his winter's supply of food during the months of plenty. . What the beast does by instinct, man has learned to do through experience. Are vou storing your dollars in a safe - place for future needs? . ~ We pay 4 per cent on _savings Citizens Bank “Th; Bank by the Cleck” -

-‘ ) - “ o Bretz for Glasses fo K? Sharp Eyes (P a g 1 @t For Y gt Sharp Work All , mechanics like te use keea sdged, perfect tools. : Eyes ere tools of the mind and must be sharp to do good work and reqist the wear of conatant use. ier us sharpen ym\um furnighing glasses that will you to see clearly. ' , in What Cenditien ¢ _ ‘ Are Your Ryes! ‘ Nevin E. Bre BVlint k., Oretz firfomeirist gaw Gyticlam 130 5. Meain St IR &

_ There are all kinds . of cheap printing—- ' butnoneof it 1s reallv cheap—at least zo! on a basis of value. Cheap stuff is usually worth al--mosi what it costs. Our printing sn’t the cheapest you can get, but it’s as dood as the best.

J. L. HENRY J. C. KIMMEL} Home Realty and Investment Co. City and Town Properties, Business Chances

.7 roum modern house on Third street. For sale or rent. -Dandy 7 room houge on Lincoln Way West. ‘ 9 room house on Union street, large lot. Priced right. 5 room cottage on Lincoln Way West, Modern, Good garage 10 room house on Cavin street, suitable for rooming house. Terms. $B5O takes a house and corner lot near the U.B. church. Terms 7 room house on Union atreét and Lincoln Highway. Garage 'Modern 7 room house on Lin coln Way West, recently remodeled, i ' $l5OO buys a 8 room house on Sixth street. aeln e $l4OO buys a good 6 room house on the North gide. Corner lot.

Phone 165 Over Levy’s FurnfiurefStorf Ligenier, Ird

Seriously Injured. Clyde Jeffries farmer near Warsaw . was seriously and probably fatally injured Wednesday when a car in which he was riding was struck by an in‘terurban car on the Winona line. ! Pay your Banner Subscription NOW

oIMON SCHLOGS 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 Come and see "us if you want te buy orsell a farm Headquarters at . CITIZENS BANK

7 room house, barn and poultry ‘house and four acres of -ground near the North Side School House, Terms. 3 choice vacant lots in the south part of the ecity, - BUSINESS CHANCES. The best restaurant in a city of 5000 on State highway. Two good restaurants on the Lincoln Hi‘ghway in a live town. Garage on the Lincoln High way. Would trade for a farm. »Géneral store in a good town Doing good business. In addition to the abovve of ferihgs we have several choice residence properties, and over gixty farms for gale or trade. We handle insurance of every description, Federal farm loans and safe securities, Call at om office and lets talk matters over

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The ragomer Banner ESTABLISHED 1566.% . Publis'hed by 8050 "he Banner Publishing Company W. C. B. HARRISON Editor Published every Monday and Thursda: wnd entered in the Postoffice at Ligoaier, Ind., as second elass matter. -

Indiana to Participate, Indiana Agricultural Experimegt Staion is to take an active part in the “Quality in Meats” exhibit to be held at the international live Stock Exposition at Chicago November 28 to December 5. Announcement to this effect was made todday by the National Live Stock and Meat Board, sponsor* of the exhibit upon receipt of definite assurance of participation from F. G. King of the Indiana Station. Live stock, showing the results of experiments ccanducted by the Indiana Station, will be shipped to Chicago for slaughtering and the carcasses and cuts of meat will be arranged at the exhibit to form a part of theeducational meat story which is .to be teld by this man. . Gives the Reason. The Kendallville News Sun gives the reasons for the return from Florida ‘cf the Hossinger family: i “Arthur Hossinger and family have returned from Florida - where they ‘went several weeks ago planning to 'spend the winter and possibly engage in a business venture. He stated that }it was next to impossible to find a suitable place to.live in except at al‘most prohibitive rates. He - further stated that he passed countless numbers of autoists enroute to Florida. It took him five days to motor home.”

‘Nearby Deaths, - Mrs. Anna Shellenbarger 84 infirmi. ties Sturgis, Henry Fulks, 72 apoplexy DeKalb county, J. D. Kobb 70 apoplexy Warsaw W. B. Moulton 63 heart disease, Elkhart Mrs. Mary Fink 88 senility, Elkhart county, Mrs. Barbara Weaver 27 tuberculosis Elkhart, A. Wilbur 86 who played in the band on Farragut's boat during the <civil war died at his home in Sturgis. ~ Town Goes On the Map, Two of our local men says the Cromwell Advance Wayne Switzer and Clyde Jones are the firoprietors of the newly opened Alcinda Kennels. The kennels will soon-be widely known for its excellent breed of bulldogs. Cromwell will then be on the map. ; ' . Distributing Wealth, = An announcement by the Indiana and Michigan Klectric Company that it will adopt a policy of inviting its customers to become preferred stockholders in the company is worthy of comment. Not only is it a method of crealing a desirable interest on the part of the customers of this utility in the affairs of the company, and a plan devised to allow these customers to share in the profits which they have to some etxent aided in producing, but it is the best kind of antidote, if carried out on an extensive scale in many lines of industry, for socialistic tendencies on the part of certain groups in this country. :

Announcements from time to time by the large corporations of the country that g@ividends totalling milliong of dollars have just been paid is often misleading to those who have a natura] distrust of big business. It is interesting to study into the matter a little before coming to any hasty conclusions about these big dividends.

Despite a marked decline in earning, the United States Steel "Corporatior in 1924 made enough money to enablc it to pay. $60,800,852 in dividends There are some who will cite this as a horrible example of capitalism and of the concentration of vast wealth ir the hands of a few men in a closed corporation. But that are the facts in this case? The stock of the United States Steel Corporation is held by more. than 159,000 different persons, whom nearly one-third are workmen or office hands employed by the corporation. So this vast sum of $60,800,852 was distributed among 159, 00 people representing an average dividend of $382.3 per stockholder. This is not concentration, but wide distribution of wealth.

It is well to remember that the stock ofother great corporations is similarly held. ' The Pennsylvania Railrcad’s dividends, for example are distributed among 144,000 stockholders; and those of the American Telegraph and Telephone company to more than twice that number. Among the stockholders of the American Bell Telephone Company are 22,000 housewives who own an average of five shares apiece; and 10,000 clerks with four share apiece; and 24,00 laboring men with three shares apiece. It is to them that the dividends of that great corporation are paid, Thirty years ago the average individual holding railroad stock was $17,000 while now it is only $9,000

- Thus more and more the “big business” of the country is owned by the people, an dthe yearly profits are distributed to the'people. . It is 'a system which secures all the real good of chat distribution of wealth at which socialism affecte to aim, but does it in a diseriminating manuer according to thrift and merit. It also secures all the good that government ownership could possibly effect, while avoiding the ruinous evils of that system and providing one of the strongest bulwarks against its adoption. Phone No. 100 for quality coal. Ligonier Artificial Ice. Co, 36Db8t Foster’s BBth Community sale Thursday Nov, 19. Commencing at 12 o’clock, g

Ancient “Strong Box” - Has Irtricate Lock

Heave to, reader, and take a look at an old sea chest. One that any old-time pirate in good standing would have given three yards of his mustache to pOsSess. ;

It rests in the front room of the home of F. 8. Allen of Los Angeles. Mr. Allen devotes his time to collecting antiques and when he saw this old iron chest over in Italy he bought it.

~ It’s a battered old box made of iron. It was brought up from the bottom of the Mediterranean sea, where it reposed hundreds of years. As far as Mr. Allen can trace its history, the chest apparently was on board one of the ships that ynade up a 4 Spanish armada of sixkeen ships that went down in a sform in the Straits of Messina, in - Mr. Allen discovered it among a lo€ of other curios in the San Mateo monastery up in the hills back of Naples, It .has a lock on it that spreads all over the under side of the lid like a big metal spider wéb. When the lid is shut there are a couple of hasps that come down on -the front side of the chest, through which a big iron bar is run and a padlock attached. :

You remove the big padlock, undo the hasps and lift, but your lift doesn’t get you anywhere. The lid won’t come up. If you are clever enough you discover that one of the rivet heads on top of ‘the chest moves-on a spring, revealing a big keyhole. You insert the key, give her a twist and eleven bolts are sprung back, releasing the lid. There is a dummy keyhole on the front side of the chest. It was purt there to tease the pirates.—Los Angeles Times,

Heat in Death Valley , Almost Beyond Belief Death valley, which lies between the Amargosa and the Panamint mountains, along the eastern line of California, is the hottest place on this continent in suminer, says Adventure Magazine. It is 276 feet below sea level and about 75 miles long. It has a Pecora of 134 degrees above zero. In winter the rawest cold winds imaginable blow through it. . In summer the air is so dry that a blanket soaked in water and hung on a line will be totally dry in half an hour. ‘A man must drink as often as every half hour to keep alive. At Furnace Creek ranch the hens wade in the irrigating ditch and squat in the water. The corral containing cows, mules and horses has sheet iron nailed on its fence to protect the animals from hot winds. Only one man has been abie to endure the heat more than three summers, and he did it by sleeping in water at night.

' Needed More Fire When the old gentleman paid a visit to the city he saw and heard a great many strange things, but he was always wary in his comments. One day his little granddaughter enticed him Into & teashop, and, leading him to a small table, proceeded to order some eclairs, a delicacy of which she was extremely fond. : “I know you'll like them, granddad,” she said coaxingly, and the old gentleman bravely tackled the unfamiliar object. : - e “Isn’t that delicious?’ inquired the little girl; seeing a strange expression come over her grandfather’s face as he took his first mouthful. : “Well, it may be,” replied grandfather in a noncommittal tone: “but doesn’t it appear to you a trifle under baked in the middle?” - ‘ Benzene’s Birth A hundred years ago Michael Faraday discovered benzene. Of all his discoveries, scientists consider that of benzene to be the most important. At the time of Faraday’s discovery, gas was compressed into iron cylinders and supplied in the same way as oxygen is today. With the natural curiosity of a scientist, Faraday examined the gas and so discovered benzene—a substance composed _of six parts carbon and six parts hydrogen. The actual form of joinery between the carbon and the hydrogen opened up a new field of thought for the chemist. Benzene should be pictured as a hexagon formed of ecarbon with an atom- of hydrogen at each of the six points,

Sort of a Chain Quarrel My father used to tell a story about a couple recently married who got into an argument, . %I saw a rat,” she said; : | “It was a mouse,” he replied. .“I say ’twas a rat,” she declared. “A mouse,” he rejoined. . They parted, but later they saw how foolish they were. They came back together and almost the first ‘words he said were: o . “How foolish we were to quarrel over a mouse.” “But that was a rat,”’ she asserted. ‘Then the quarrel started again.— Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. | Dangerous Experiment Mr. and Mrs. Author were going out for the evening. They had engaged a new nurse and she was left in charge of the children for the first time. . “Dear.” remarked Mrs. Author as she came downstairs, “I looked into the nursery and noticed nurse was Tead’ng. Who gave her the hook ?” - “T did,” replied her husband. “What book is it?’ - ; “My llgst,” he answered. - “Darling !” exclaimed his wife. “And - you know how important it is that she - should not go to sleep !” ! Escapes With Burns. ~ Mervin Hostetler who was principal of the LaGrange high schol the past two years was overcome by smoke and heat last Friday morning when the Salem Center school building in Steuben county burned to the ground, and it was thought at first that his condition might prove fatal. ‘

* Without M. Ps and DDs Millersburg a town of about 500 population has no preacher and within a few days will be without a resident physician. The Lutheran and Reformed churches have been without. a pastor for some time and Dr. G. E. Cecil the town’s lone Jphysician will go south Tuesday to make his home, Leading residents of the town are making efforts to have a physician locate there and also hape to have the vacant pulpits supplied. ‘ Perry Will Be Punished. ~ Perry Chiddister 72 years old for‘merly of Ligonier pleaded guilty to aslsiault and battery on his step-daughter Mildred Eastwood 16, when arraigned in the city court at Elkhart Thursday ;morning and will be sentenced. The girl said that her step father struck her with a whip becuse she went down town to watch the Armistice Day festivities. . ' One Gains Where Other Leses. ‘What is one town’s losg is another’s gain. Claypool is to have a newspaper after moore than 20 years. The Mentone Gazette has ceased publication in that town because of lack of patronage and will move to Claypool. G .W. Krathwohl is the owner and editor.

= 1 o Brysipelas, F. M. Henney Cromwell furniture dealer and undertaker is confined to his home ' with erysipelas. A The inflammatory disease first effected him on Friday and is causing him much pain and agony. . - Aged Warsaw Man dies. John D. Kobb 70 who lived near Warsaw for 38 years died at his home Tuesday night. He formerly resid in Mishawaka.: - : : Wants Cheaper Rates. The Columbia City council will petition the public service commigsion for" a reduction in electric service for that eity. . -‘ _ Foster’s 58th Community sale Thursday Nov. 19. Commencing at 12 o’clock. 3 : : For Sale—Piano (Emerson) will sell cheap. See Clair Weir. = 37btf

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