Ligonier Banner., Volume 59, Number 46B, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 January 1926 — Page 2

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W. H. WIGTON ~ . Attorney-at-law Office In Zimmerman Block - LIGONTER, IND MM Harry L. Benner Auctioneer Upen for all engagemends Wolf Lake, Indiana Both Noble and Whitley " County Phones Bothwell & Vanderford ' - Lawyers Phone 156. Ligonier. Indiana VERN"B.FISHER Sanitary Plumbing and Heating Phone 210 Ligonier,ilnd [ - \uan/ ]

The I.gomer Banner| - EST. 2D 1880.% : - Prblished by : = 6 "he Banner Publishing Company : W. C. B. HARRISON Editor e et e A S Published every Monday and Thursday and entered in the Postoffice at u¢9-1 afer, Ind., as second class matter. ;—.—-—_—_———-——_—_7_——i‘ Langford and Williams to Fight. Boxing fans of Northern Indiana are goin to see one of the greatest .battles of the year when Wolcott Lang ford of Chicago meets Roy Williams at the Armory at Elkhart Monday January 11. Both th&e lads are colored boys who have met once before and put up a good bout. They were sent against each other at Elkhart on December 14 and the fans of Elkhart and vicinity are still talkirg about that fuss. Judge Royse to Make Decision. A final decision will be rendered by Judge Royse in the. Kosciusko county court Jan. 9 on priority claim of depositors of the Farmers’ State bank at Milford.

[ Claims of the depositors totai $45,DOO. The bank failed a year ago with losses totaling $225,060. . Democratic Chieftain Dies. Mason J. Nizlack veteran democratiq party of chieftain ~ and three times speaker of the Indiana house of representatives died at his home south of Vincennes. The end was sudden, being caused by acute indigestion and heart failure. . Fix Dog Tax. - , The dog tax rate for 1926 was set by the commissioners of Elkhart county. The tax rate will be the same as it was last year.. The sum of $3 will be charged for the first dog rezardless of sex and $5 for each dog. thereafter. - | South Bend Plant Guted. The South Bend branch of Armour and Co., was gutted by fire Monday. It is estimated the loss will reach $50,000. The origin of the fire has not been determined but the flames evidently started in the basement. Farmer Tied to Tree. Three Hunters tied William Meade 43 to a tree when he ordered them to get off his farm mnear Logansport. Meade finally freed himself and today is attempting to learn the identity of the huntersr ; Enters Furndte. Mrs. Margaret House died Tuesday afternoon from injuries and burns received when she climbed into a furnace at her home early at Shelbyville in an effort to end her life. Sult is Dismissed. The case of the town of Cromwell against the Seamon Construction company of Goshen on account was settled and dismissed in the Elkhart circuit Tuesday. : Mafl Carrier Killed, ' Reuben Mcilntire age 69 Athens mail carrier was fatally injured when struck by an east bound freight train at Athens Saturday. He died at the Woodlawn hospital at Rochester.

Dies at Milford. Death came to Mrs Mary Mathews 60 at her home in Milford Sunday afternoon after an illness of a number of years. ‘Mr. and Graham Lyon and littlg daughter Mary pgid Chicago a visit Wednesday to remain several days. Salesman Wanted Immediately. . Reliable, steady, intelligent , well recommended man, from 2 sto 60 vears of age, to sell farmers in this state. . Knowledge of farming and farm conditions desirable. Must be willing to work six days a week. Selling experience not necessary, personal training under local manager. Big pay every week. Good territory. All year work. Permanant position. Advancement. State if now employed, when you cam start and if you have a car. Address Home Office Sales manager, Dept. CDW, Box 1682, Philadelphia, Penn. 45a3t

Home Realty and Investment Co. ROOMS 3 AND 4 SECOND FLOOR | : LEVY BLOCK, LIGONIER, IND. L , J. L. HENRY Manager : , L ‘Dealers in | Real Estate, Stocks and Bonds 4' : and ; o ~ Property Rentals We have some REAL BARGAINS in REAL ESTATE, never before offered to the public. Call and let us explain the terms and then take you to SEE them . : If you are in*the market for , - INSURANCE | Just call 165 and we will call and quote you rates and terms | on any.o( the following o AUTOMOBILE, FIRE and CYCLONE. . LIFE, WORKMAN'S COMPENSATION - - and / " EMPLOYERS LIABILITY ~ Satisfactory Seryice, OUR aim YOUR BUSINESS SOLICITED .

, Bluffton Mah Killed. ‘ One mian is dead and his erstwhile friend is under arrest charged with homicide following a fist fight in an alley at Detroit. The fight grew out of an altercation over a woman wit, nesses told the police. , The dead man was Charles Jacobs 20 of Bluffton who died from a fractured skull when knocked to the pavement by Deltén H. White 19 Jacobs’ body was taken to the county morgue to await disposition by relatives. ' Following the death of Jacobs, police were informed that two women said to have been the cause of the fight packed their personal effects and hurriedly left Detroit.- : Three Years in Prison,

Philip Hentz and and William Hentz and Floyd McFarland who were arrested several weeks ago at Paw Paw Mich., for stealing an automobile at RElkhart pleaded guilty in the superior court at Elkhart and all were sentenced to three to five years in prison Philip Hentz will go to Michigan City} being over 30 years of age and the other two will be taken to the re—! formatory at Pendleton. J > Srnadane o * Back Is Broken in Accident. | Mrs. Agnes Webb 31 of Michigan City lay in a hospital at- Peru Tuesday with a broken back received in an auto accident near there. She was believed dying when taken to the hospital but was revived and physicians are now striving to prevent her from being permanently paralyzed below thewaist. The auto in which Mrs. Webb was riding to Indianapolis sgkidded on a slippery pavement and overturned. Robinson to Speak., = Senator Arthur Robinson appointed to -fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Ralston will address an allday meeting of the Indiana AntiSaloon League at South Bend January 17.

. Damon and Pythias. Chase S. Osborn formerly governor of Michigan has proposed to President Coolidge that he be allowed to serve out the prison sentence of Former Governor McCray of Indiana.confined in the Atlanta federal prison. A casé of Dmon and Pythias modernized. Notlee to Water Takers, You are hereby notified that water rents are due January Ist 1926 payable at the office of the city clerk. On all rents due and not pald on or before January 20th a penalty of ten percent will be added. . All water rents for 1926 are now due and must be paid on or before lJaguary 20th. Office hours 9 a. m. to 6 p . m. 46abt Joseph C. Kimmell, City Clerk. | Ao [ Pay your Banner Subscription NOW m e $ P I A R e TR { e I : |Bv ‘B 4bz ] wl : | ‘\l = S s A Battery |} With ithout Jars The new Gummite case; an exclusive feature with : Exide Batteries, is moulded all in one piece, including com‘fi:rtmmts ‘ for thecells. Thus, indi. vidual jars arw done : awgy' w,th. : CGummite is cti= cally ir.xdestrut:tib{)el;a will not warp, and is not af- : fectéda:gy temperature, ®cid, or water. Let us show you this ideal bate tery case, BLAZED TRAIL ~ GARAGE

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Autos Damaged. Although automabiles owned and| driven by Dr. Hannah O. Staufft of near Dunlap and Olive Cripe of Middlebury were badly damaged when they collided on the Lincoln highway near the Kundred farm west of . shen, no persons were injured. A companying Dr. Staufft were Mrs. Mary Berkey 83 and Mrs. Henry Brumbaugh and her daughter Florence. , ~ Attack Klansman. - Carl Shroyer one of the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan in Kosciusko county was made the victim of an assault late Saturday night. As he stepped from a general store at Dutchtown, near Leesburg he was struck over the head with a club and seriously injured. Shroyer was taken to the McDonald hosptial at Warsaw for treatment. Nearby Deaths : ‘ Ben Lechilitner 61 pneumonia Wakarusa; Mrs. R. H. Maring €9 compli~ cations, Columbia City; Nancy Bruning 82 liver trouble E lkhart; County Commisser Lowell Hively, 48 cancer of stomach, Whitley county; Mrs. Mary Huffman 72 cancer Whitley county Miss Emma Fletcher 57 complications Columbia City. 5 Aged Couple Wed. : A marriage license has been issued to- Oliver 'W. Stofer 69 merchant Auburn and Sarah A. Ducan 68 Ashley. Two previous wives of the groom are dead and he was divorced from another. The-first husband of the bride is dead. :

- LaGrange Man Dead. Thomas - Jefferson KEvans 70 years old, died at his home at LaGrange after a two weeks’ illness of heart leakage. He leaves his widow, thiee daudaughters. Mr. Evans had lived there sixty-five years. Robs Service Station. 1 The Park Service station of Cuppy! Cross Road a half mile south of South ‘Whitley was broken into and robbed. A fine radio set and all the equipment candies, . confections and cigars included the loot o fthe robbers. 5 ; Buried at Albion. Funeral services for Charles Callahan 56 a resident at the county seat for many years were held_Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Lutheran church the Rev. H. C. Kleckner officiating ‘with burial in the Albion cemetery. : Stolen Sousaphone Found. A $350 gold plated sousaphone ownby the C. G. Cohn of Elkhart factory which Charles Abbott an itinerant musician took with him when he unceremoniously departed in November has been _recovered by police at Charleston, W. V.| e ,

To Cleveland Next Week. Rev. and Mrs. Charles L. Deßow will leave Goshen for their new home in Clevland, Ohio next week where Dr. Deßow becomes pastor the First Methodist church. , Entertain For Guest Mrs. Arlo Shearer Tuesday entertained eight ladies at a luncheon in compliment to her aunt Mrs: Harry Howenstein of Chicao. Two Die at Bremen. Two lifelong residents of Bremen, Jacob Villmar 77 and Mrs. Eliza Blass man 81 died last Friday. Both were widely known. . Wild Pigeons All Gone * Vast numbers of wild pigeons were seen in this country prior to 1808, though not in such great numbers as earlier in the century, namely, 1800 to ‘lB5O. The slaughter of these pigeons raged for years with nets, traps and -guns, and by 1884 there were very fow of the wild pigeons seen in this country. By 1900 they had dwindled down to a few specimens left in captivity tn Milwaukee and in the Oincinnati %00. Martha, the last known wild pigeon, dled 2 p. m, August 29, 1914, at the age of twenty-nine. According to all ornithological data avaflable, she was the last of her tribe in the ‘world. Martha's mate died in 1810, and though a prize of $l,OOO was offered for a mate, node was ever found.

Nothing to Worry About

To hear some young women talk they would be very choosey in select ing a husband When it comes to domestic abflity, men are not so finnicky, If we may belleve this paragraph from Judge: The ceremony over, ‘the wife began to weep coplously. “What's the matter?” asked the new husband. “I—l never told you that I don’t know how to cook,” sobbed the bride. “Don’t fret,” said he, “I'll not have anything to cook. I'm an edl tor.,”"—OQCapper’s Weekly. :

There are no definite dates for .In dian summer, which i 8 a period of warm or mild weather late in autumn or in early winter, usually characterized by a clear, cloudless sky, and by a hazy or smoky appearance of the atmosphere, especlally near.the horizon. The term is commonly applied to such period occurring in October or more commonly in November, after a definite frost. it

It is computed that between 10,000,000 and 20,000,000 strike the earth’s atmosphere daily. Two or three meteorites are seen to fall yearly. Since a large part of the earth is covered with water or uninhabited, it 1s ithought probable that about 100 strike ‘the earth annually. It is not known positively that meteors and meteorites are composed of the same materials

Indian Summer

Meteoric Visitors

Blame Elkhart Man. o Geore Stocker of Elkbart engineer of section six of the Twentieth Century Limited was blamed for the accident in Chicago Monday that resulted in injuries to himself and sev, eral other persons in a statement issued by the general offices of the New York Central railroad. - In a statement it was said it appears that “Stocker failed to obey caution and stop signals,” resulting in his train crashing into section 6 made up of empty cars. ; ‘Among the slightly injured was E. IE. Eby mail clerk of Wakarusa. , Injuries Prove Fatal, Harry Batistoni 35 alleged Detroitl bootlegger died at the Lutheran hospital at Fort Wayne of injuries suffered Thursday morning when an automobile which he was driving crashed into an Indiana Service Corporation interurban car five miles south of that. city.

Dies at Kendallville, Emil G. Kropp aged 70 years residen of Kendallville the past 40 years and a veteran brass moulder at the Flint & Walling factory died Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at his home there death resultig from an attack of acute bronchitis. . Wanted, - A respongsible man to care for the Ligonier cemetery. Duties to begin ‘iMarch Ist 1926. Apply to C. E. Den.ning, Secy. 42btf l CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY Services in Weir Block. Sunday school 9:45 A. M. Lesson Sermon 11:00 A, M. Subject—God o ' Wednesday evening testimonial neeting 8:00 P, M. : Everybedy welcome. : For Sale ' Burroughs adding machine in good condition and a beautiful roll top office desk. Mrs. C. L. Chamberlain, Phone 861, Ligonier. 44atf

10¢ PALM OLIVE SOAP, 4 Cakes for

JANUARY GLEARANGE SALE

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DRESS SHIRTS FOR MEN—--oOdd lot 'sale of $2.00 Shirts .in broken sizes. Nearly one hundred of these to choose from in madras, broadcloth and high count percale at $l.OO. - WORK SHIRTS FOR MEN— Blue chambray, fast color, two pockets, all sizes from 141 to 17, full cut, made to fit. Worth 76¢. January Clearance Sale at Kline's 2 for $1.0(3: GIRL'S GOWNS—of Flannelette —now all sizes, but a wonderful value. Regular 59¢ quality, January = Clearance at‘ Kline’s 48¢.

. +BOYS CLOTHING - - AT JANUvRY CLEARANCE PRICES

SUITS Two Pants Suits, some with vests. A general clearance of all broken lines in Boys’ Suits. Values to $lO . at $6098 Others Priced from 8,95 to $12.95

Men’s Heavy OVERCOATS Extra Heavy Warm' Winter Overcoats for men in sizes 34 to 40, in prowmn or gray, values to $20.00 . $12.90 Men’s S‘fieepfined, watexiproot $lO.O Duck 8 90 Coats at $ - Men’s Heavy Canvas Blanket lined 'Coats at 4 98 only . $ °

J. C. KIMMELL o - J. K. KIMMELL KIMMELL REALTY CO.. Office First Floor Citizens Bank Building Ligonier Ind. j Phone 800 ‘ “w & - Farm Land Bulletin - $3500 buys 118 acres within a mile of the Lincoln Highway. Some choice onion'and mint land and a private lake. Good fishing. 95 acres on the paved road connecting the Lincoln Highway with Albion. Good buildings and some timber. Ne waste land. S : Choice 40 acre tract south of Cromwell. No buildings. $lOOO buys a 5 acre tract in Elkhart Township with a good set of improvements. Would trade for Ligonier property and give immediate possession. , ; , ' : : 80 acre farm two miles north of Albion. Good buildings and a good tenant house. Priced right. ; ; ' o 147 acre improved farm within 2 miles of Cromwell for less than the improvements cost. $2OOO cash and long time 5%% loan on the balance. Good stock and grain farm. . Choice 100 acres in Swan Township. 70 acres clay loam and 30 acres of onion and mint land. Good buildings. $2OOO cash and your own time on the balance. 237 acre farm within four miles of Ligonier and one half ';nile off of the Lincoln Highway. No waste land, good buildings. Would trade for a smaller farm and give long time on the difference. . $6OOO buys a good stock and grain farm in York township on paved road. 30 acres of onion and mint land. Might take Ligonier property in exchange. = : . : : : . 41 acre farm 1% miles northwest of Goshen. 7 room stucco “house. 5 acres timber. Good soil. $l5OO will give immediate possession. Balance long time. : : : . 80 acre farm within 3 miles of Ligonier. Good buildings. Fertile soil. Just off the Toledo and Chicage Pike. 69 acre farm near Indian Village. 12 acres timber. Good soil and buildings $5500 takes it. . . : | In addition to the above we have city and town property, business ~ chances, and summer reosrt properties. We handle insurance of every i kind sound secrities and Federal Farm Loans, :

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: ’ : | WOMEN'S COATS = ‘AT TREMENDOUS REDUCTIONS Coats of Bolivia, Needle Point, Suede, Velour and other fabrics of finest texture. Colors are the staple black, navy, brown and all the new shades of tan, brick, lipstick, etc.. Styles for both the matron or girlish figure in either regular or stout sizes. January Clearance Sale Prices will save you from $lO.OO to $15.00. )

Values to $39.50 A group of highest grade Coats for women in materials, styles and colors that reprebsent the best, January ‘Clearance sale price | : only ’ . $24085

SPECIAL JANUARY REDUCTIONS

MEN’S DRESS TROUSERS—of cashmeres, worsteds and herringbones in dark pin stripes, sizes for all. A regular $3.00 quality for January Clearance at Kline’s $2.39.

MEN’S, BOYS’, GIRLS’ AND WOMEN’S RUBBERS—a sale of broken sizes, Men’s are worth $1.35 and $1.98; Women’s are all worth $1 and the Dboys’ and girls’ are worth 89c¢c a pair. January Clearance Sale sbe.

WOMEN’S SATEEN AND JERSEY BLOOMERS, full cut, double elastic ruffle at knee, all dark colors, well made and cut full, pair 56e¢. -

OVERCOATS Boys’ Overcoats in fine qualities to -be closed out regardless of original cost. Sizes 3 to 8 to go at : 490 only $ ) ‘Other coats In larger sizes - $6.98 up.

-+ AT GREAT REDUCTIONS January Clearance Sale of Dresses, in wool or silk. New materials, New Colors and exceptionally pretty styles for miss- or m,atrbn\in regular or émtra sizes, cut for below regular prices to clear out all stocks for this sale at $12.90. R

CLOTH OR SILK DRESSES now priced at - 488 only ' PXe

50¢ GILLETTE BLADES

- Values to $22.50 An exceptional opportunity especially for the small figure. Fur trimmed Coats of Bolivia and Suede 12 88 at . »

REMNANTS, REMNANTS. A special selling of Cotton, Woolen and Silk Remnants at far less than ordinary reductions. A chance to buy dress goods at a tremendous sa{ings. Kline’s Clearance Sale. o

SALE OF WHITE GOODS—SBIx 90 Sheets at 95c—42x36 Pillow Caseés . -at 33c. Fruit of the Loom Muslin 24c. Hope Muslin 15c. 81 inches. wide Bleach--ed or Brown®heeting at 45¢ and a part Linen Bleached Toweling at 10c. - o

WOOLEN GLOVES AND MITTHENS, very special selling of 49c gloves and mittens for children, and black or gray gloves for women at 17¢.

Girls’ Winter - COATS

FUR TRIMMED COATS FOR GIRLS, sizes 2 to 6 at an unheard of low price. for Clearance : . 69 only $2O Fur Trimmed Girls’ Coats in sizes 7 to 14 $3 98 only ‘Pede » Best quality Girls’ Coats, fur trimmed, worth to $8.95 at 5.88

CHILDREN’S CLOTH DRESSES All sizes at - $2 98 only D d o