Ligonier Banner., Volume 59, Number 40B, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 November 1925 — Page 7

("I;"S'I‘OMER O\V'NERSIIIP PLAN , PROVES SUCCESSFUL HERE Lighting Company Sells Hundreds of Shares of its Preierred Stoek to Local Residents The movement of the large public utility companies in marketing their own seeurities through their employees to their customers which was started in California in 1914, has spread throughout the entire country until it has become a strong factor in financing a class of business which directly atfects every inhabitant of every city in the United States:. Indiana & Michigan Electric Company is now selling shares of.its Preferred Stock which pavs dividends at 7%*a year. “ The result of the Customer-Owner-ship movement is that today there are more holders of public utility stock in the United States than of any other class of investment securities . A large percentage of these investors is made up of men and women ofinoder-‘ ate means who have been quick to appreciate the safety of these stocks and the substantial return they give.

In cffering the Preferred Stock for sale -the public utility officials who were responsible for the movement felt that the ones to share in the money paid out as dividends should be the customers of the companies—they support the companies and should ¢hare in their success. i Prineipally as the vresult of: this movement there are today more than 2,500,000 owners of public utility. securities in the United States and the movement has proven a real and lasting benefit to the Investors, the Companies and the Public, The safety of Indiana & Michigan Electric Company Preferred Stock is indicated by the fact that.the Company is selling electriciiy -a vital necessity and is patronized directly or indirectly by the entire tevritory served. Investors in the Preferred Stock of the Lighting Company have added ad-

| HUDSON’S ' v . ! re-riofnaay % ale Winter goods at prices much lower than the present market prices just when you need them most. Here is a gpod chance for vou to supply yvour needs for some time to come, ’ ‘ Get in this week for Monday, November 30th is the last day for these prices. These are unusual prices for this time of the year. - se B A Few of the Bargains: -; _: 7 : : . * ¢ 5 Yards Daisy Outing Flannel ..............$l.OO 3 Ib Quilted Comiorter Batts ............. ... .5100 » Yards 36-inch Fancy Outing ..........................$l.OO 72x80 inch Nashua Plaid Blankets ...........$2.75 56-inch All Wool Dress Goods ........0...............51.50 Nashua Part Wool Plaid Bla.nkets a 4 sYards Fancy 32 inch Dress Ginghams .....$l.OO 7 Yards Fancy Curtain Goods ..............\.......51.00 2Y, Yards 81-inch Bed Sheeting ....................$l.OO Eiz :ize Fancy Beacon Blankels- L e Hezvy 66x80 inch Plaid Blankcts ..................$3.50 2 Yards White Table Damask e o Rlee 3-Ib. Samsen Quilled Batls ... . .. ... .7%5e¢ - 27-inch White Outing Flannel ...........................15¢ " 2V, Yards 50c Curtain Nets ............................$l.OO 54 ;.mca:Fine Wool Goods ...............................81.95 ~ 4'pound’ Big Owl Quilted Batts .....................$1.39 f 490 inch Fine Black Charmeuse ........................$1.85 : *l;ad_ies Girls or Boys Union Suits .................$l.OO - N ‘ ____ 6% 1 - GOSHENINDIANA.

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‘vantage. As the Company is a local one its stock is known to all nearby financial institutions. o ' Consults Attorneys, ~J. L. Dunning was in LaPorte consulting his attorneys in reference to his damage suit against F. G. Lapham growing out of the Sugar Hill automobile wreck in which he was hurt, Mrs. Dunning killed and Mr, and Mrs J W Draper were injured The case is set down for trial in the LaPorte circuit court one week from next friday, . : ~ Mr. and Mrs. Drapesr also have damage suits against the same defendant the combined demands being $12,000, L - Kimmell Items, Ml, and Mrs. Howard Love entertained. Mr. and Mrs. Bly Phares and family to dinner Sunday. ‘Mrs. Fred Weir of LaGrange spent Friday at the home of Rev. Hutsinpiller and wife. ' " Mrs. R. W. Clark spent several days with her husband R. W. Clark at Jackson Michigan, Mr. and Mrs Grant Phares and son Cecil and family spent Sunday in

Elkhart with their daughter Nrs. Merritt Gard. . £ Mps BRW. (lark and boys and ‘Beryl Clark were enterta%ed in the Iloyd Goudy home Sunday. l Pot Luck Dinner. i The Perry Township home division “will ghave an all day seeing and a %Pm juck dinner at the home of Mrs. }.lennie Bartholomew \\_'»ednesday Dec. ;3. 10c¢ ’Cl]l‘ifitlll:-ls exchange. Hot buns ;will be fln'nished by Mrs. Bartholoimew. : : | See “The Half Way Girl” yvou’ve -f}'mui about it you've talked about it, :hm\' the million dollar ship was blown ‘up for a movie thrill now see it at %(‘mystal Sunday and Monday. { "J‘oy::, at Weavers Hardware. .

~ Cromwell Items. : ‘M. Libbert of South Bend was hersg Monday. : . , George Ruby of Syracuse was here Sunday, - , * [ A medi_(;ine show is_here.this week, .~ Howard Rice and faiifily ieft Moniday for Kentucky for a two months visit. . : ~ Perry Kiser and family will visit in Terre Haute this weekk. J. Stellar and wife were Kendallville visitors Sunday. - J. Hitler was at Kendallville Tuesday. ‘ o Warren Hyndman returned to Elkhart Monday. : . Seymour hag a new car also Captain Deardoff. = o B Gorsuch, BE. Butler and Kent Werker have gone to Florida. Their many friends presented them with 2 piano to use on their concert -tour— They belong to the Loman Club and this is the first time‘un'l:eumi that the club has broken the rules and regulations of the organization by giving something: away. Misses (uenda ‘Bunger M. Leémons and H. Brown will visit Mr. and Mrs. Homer Myers at Lafountain this week. Woody Myer is home from Arkansas.. ‘ :

C. Dearvdorff is one of the sick. H. Bunger and E. Deßrular were at Goshen Monday. e . B. Gard who has been sick several weeks is able to be about again. Cromwell Mems, Ernest Woods who has )c::‘n in the army for four years is home. ; Mrs. S. Lehman is one of the sick Ir Stocker has a new auto ‘ - - S McMann has closed tue pickle factory and discharged the workmen Joe Trimble of Garveti was here Saturday: - s . Charles Ralihan of Albion was here Friday. .. : - Harry Gates .of Goshen was here Friday. . He will not build his dance hall at the lake mnext year on account of shortage of steel and other material. & Two polecats were caugint in ti)\’:n Saturday night. Several though they had opened King Tut's tonib again, Ben Levy of Fort Wayne was here Friday. P J. Manion attepded ' the football game at South Bend: Saturday. He says the hotels had stop and go signals on their dining room tobles. Charlegs Hanlon retvrned from Florida_Satul‘day. He gays the weather man there has water on the brain Wm. Jor(iy was-at Snut'h Bend Saturday. While there he sold his old flivver at a profit, , Rolla Wells of Danville 111, preached at the M. E. church Sunday evening. = The revival meetings are still in progress. : - IJohn Anderson of Knox, Ind., visgited i‘elatives here Saturday. While here he exhibited several rugs made fiom fibers taken from string beans. Trank Adans of Peru was here ‘Sunday. Frank says wihen vou take a ride in a buggy in his town they put cut flowers in the whip socket. ‘ Floting Bad Checks, "The Noble County Better Business Bureau has received notice toc warn local merchants to he no the lookout for a check artist who has been floating worthless checks in -¢ities of northern Indiana, The amounts of the checks vary from $8 tc $lO and have been signed George L. Wolt and J. C. O'Brein. The checks aie o¢f counter. style with “‘Salary’ or SCoemmission” typed in lower portion c¢lose to gignature. The notice to the local organization . was. received from = the Perp Cifedit Burean. . 10

All DPetours Eliminated. e _ All detours between South Bend and Chicago on the Lincoln highway have been removed the last barrier being taken down Saturday noon, it has been announced by the state highway commission. The. detours -of Rolling Prairie have been especially troublesome and unpleasant, and the announcement made Saturday will be good news to all motorists. - | Preacher Stricken in Pulpit, Sy = Gordan was stricken with apoplexy while preaching Sunday evening in,the New Paris charch of the Brethren. Dr. Page was summoned from Goshen and the minister was l‘e_moved to the home of his daughter Mrs. Ed Boyts in an ambulance. His ‘condition is serious. : - To Be Quiet Day. Thanksgiving in Ligonier promises to ;r_)e a quiet day given over to din‘ners and social intercourse. All business will be suspended and the people will make it a real holiday. . e e et i ~° Submits to Operation, | Mary daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Golden submitted 1o a serious operation in Goshen hospital Tuesday. =brs. Lane of this wity and Hildebvand of Topeka Were the operating surgeons. . ; -

~ “QOlder Boys” Conference, Final arrangements were being made today for the older boy's conference which will open at Anderson Thursday. An atendance of; 1,000 is expected. Reginald Denny in® “California Straight Ahead”, never another like it . It has everything and more hegides. Don’t miss it at the .Crystal Thanksgiving. afternoon and evening } ‘Mr. and _i{lrs. Hary Haller Mr. and Mrs. Allen Haller of South Bend Miss Kvelyn Woods of Fort Wayne Mrs. Katie Woods and son Ernest of near Cromwell and Glen Yoder of Ligonier were dinner guests Sunday at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Hascall Crothers northwest of Ligoniey.

! Prize Diamond Collection { In the Museum of Vienna there 1s ’ a wonderful collection 6f diamonds of { many colors, They are in the form of { & beuquet, the natural colors of the | flowers' being represented by diamonds g of the same hues., These stones were | collected by a Tyrolese, Virgin von § Helmreicher, who passed many years | In the diamond mines of South Africa { and Brazil, buying many of his finds f from the mine owners.

F irst Parachute The British air force’s use of a parachute, perfected by an American, recalls that the first lifesaver of this kind was conceived 132 years ago by a I'renchman. 'This Frenchman was a German prisoner in u fortress at Coblentz and with a parasol contrivance he dropped safely from ‘the fortress walls to liberty. Back in France he yeri‘et-cie,d the idea. Gl g - Famous Indian Chief :

Red Cloud was the principal chief of the Ogalala Teton Sioux of Pine Ridge reservation, the largest band of the Rioux nation, and probably the most famous and powerful chief in the history of the tribe. He was born at the forks of the Platte river, Neb., In 1822, and died at Pine Ridge on Deceniber .10, 1909. P Coloring Lobsters Lobsters may be colored to any hue desired to suit the particular scheme of dinner decoration simply by putting coloring matter in their food, according to a well-known German. scientist. e discovered that they turn red after they are hoiled because of the action of the heat upon a chemical in their shells—Popular Mechanies Magazine. . Whkere Scientists Err Speaking before the DBritish Asgociation for the Advancement of Seierce at Southampton, England, Sir Oliver Lodge asked that scientists talk ia plain English. A particular appeal was made to botanists, wha were declared to be the most prolifie coiners of troublesome words. o ootV iemmeraais - No Tots or Roaches WANTED-—Furnished kitchen, sink, hot and cold water, bedroom, private bath, extra room desirable; not essentizl: English couple; within 20 minutes’ walk center.. No ' children, rosiches or other vermin. Full particulars, N. F. W, 124 Hurt Bldg— Atlanta Journal. .

: Actress as First Lady The only actress ever to become mistress of the White House was Priscilla 'U'yler, who was well known to pliygoers in the '4os. Miss Tyler was 8 daughté-in-law of President Tyler and presided over the executive mansion for a‘short time during his administration. \ e Ever Thought of That? A lady, examining a’ Sunday school class about Dives and Lazarus, asked whether it was not very bad of Dives not to give the crumbs to Lazarus. All the children said “Ye#™ except one little girl. “Perhaps, ma’am, Dives kept chickens,” she suggested. Rattlesnakes Climb Trees The United States biological survey says that rattlesnakes do not habitually climb trees, because they are poorly adapted to such an accomplishment, but there is unquestionable prooi that they gdo so occasionally. Sent to His Death Diego de Nicuesa, a Spanish comnizinder (having displeased the colonists at Antigua, W. L., by his overbearing manner, was forced, in March, 1611, to sail away in a rotten ship, and weas never heard of again. : : Magic in Music This is the luxury of musie. It touches every key of memory and stirs all the hidden springs of sorrow and joy. Love it for what it makes you forget and for what it makes you remember.—Brittain.

- Irishman Trained Russians One of the men employed by Peter the Great in organizing and training the Russian army was Peter Lacy of Limerick, Ireland, who fought in various wars in the service of Russia until retired in 1743. The Ananias Club “I enjoy getting in one of these traffic jams as much as I used to in the blackberry jam,” grinned the motorist, who had been held up for half an hour.—Cincinnati Enquirer, Not Yet Knocked Out ~ Blinks—“The motor bus is gonna kmock out the railroad.” Jinks—*“Maybe. But you’'ll notice it is the bus and not the train that waits at the crossing.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Primitive Borneo Tribe Borneo has many strange tribes, among them the Likits, who follaw the trails of wild pigs and live upon the roots which these animals grub out of the ground. L |

Dogs and Tuberculosis _ The public health service says that while dogs may have tuberculosis they are not considered a common source of its transmission. b Keep Up With the Times Fortune no longer knocks at a man’s door. Have an eélectric button if you want to be in-the push. - Girl. Attacked. : A 14 year old Fort Wayne girl was grabbed by a negro as she ran thr ugh an alley. She broke from her assailant and fled before she was injured. Special matinee at 3:00 Thanksgiving -day. = '

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