Ligonier Banner., Volume 60, Number 1A, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 February 1926 — Page 2

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¥y & The ligomer Banner ImeTABusHED 1008.0 | . §{Published by |=g “he Banner Publishing Company W. C. B. HARRISON Editer ; Published every Monday and Thursday sud entered in the Postofies at Ligeaier, Ind., as secoad c_--“. e o R S B P e e » Epidemic of Deaths. Death which has visited Kendallville suddenly three times within the past week struck again Friday morning through the heart attack claiming the life of John S. Crone aged 76 years well known farmer and practically a lifelong resident of Allen township, Noble county. The epidemic of sudden deaths start ed a week ago says the News Sun, when Moses Hostettler 64 dropped dead while shoveling snow. The second death was that of Henry T. Miller 66 who fell dead at his home m North State Street Tuesday night and Hug Barron 71 who died of acute indigestion Wednesday after several hours’ illness.

Mr. Crone’s death came without warning and was a distinet shock to relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs, Crone had planned to motor to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Roberts to spend the day. Mr. Crone had gone to his garage entered the car and had started the motor when he was stricken, : L Fire at Valparaiso, A roaring fire attacked the downtown district of Valparaiso Friday and was soon beyond the control of fire fighters. . The blaze apparently started in the Farmers’ State bank building and destroyed that structure within two hours. The flames spread to adjoining buildings and wrecked a numbexr of stores and offices. | . Steel vaults in the bank containing valuable securities may be saved buft the bank was otherwise a total loss. Sieber’s drug store, Tobins’ smoke shop, Kauffman's clothing store thg Farmers’ restaurant and half dozen office suites on the second floor of the bank building were destroved. Gary Has $200,000 Fire.

Damage estimated at $200,000 resulted Friday from a fire which swept the Ogden building in the heart of Gary’'s business district, and for a time threatened to spread to other structures. The building one of the largest in Gary and containing more than a dozen offices and shops was almost completely 'destroye(l. Every piece of fire equipment in Gary with the exception of one company which had been sent to Valparaiso to aid in fighting a blaze there fought for several hours to prevent a spread of the blaze.

Ninety-one Years Young. Capt. John R. Smith of Kendallvillg Friday quietly celebrated his 91st birthday anniversary. Despite hig advanced age Mr. Smith is enjoying good health and was seen shoveling the snow from his walks. He is a veteran of the civil war and one of the city’s oldest residents. Politically Mr. Smith is a demiocrat and is said to be the oldest dewmocratic voter in the. county, He is uqite active and makes frequent walks to the down-town district. Mr; Smtih is quite well known in Ligonier where he has frequently visited: Another Big Damage Suit, - Suit for $50,000 was filed in the Elkhart court by Floyd Hursh of Elkbart against Dr. I. Wright Short of Elkhart. Dr. Short is alleged in the complaint to have conspired with Mrs; Hurst from whom the plaintiff seeks a divorce in passing off an infant obtained at the Mishawaka Orphan’s home as one born to Mrs. Hursh of which Hursh was the father., Dr. Short is a leading physician ot Elkhart and is the New York Central’s doctor in that city.

Buy Another Market. A deal has just been consummated here in which Cecil and Arthur Hos+ singer have purchased the interest of Ephriam Kreiger of Avilla in the John Hossinger meat market, and after next Monday the market will be known as the Hossinger Brothers meat mar-+ ket. Cecil and Arthur who have been residing at Ligonier will return to Kendallville but will continue to op+ erate their meat market in that city. —Kendallville News Sun. ; Is Given Freedom | The case of Carl Earl Schott 33 charged with killing his brother Cal-j vin Schott 42 came to an abrupt-close Friday in the superior court at Elks hart. The accused was found not: guilty. The jury was out but a mos ment. ' : ! Many to Move Mareh 1 ‘ Many farmers will change residence; Marchl. Tenants will go from -one farm to another and the usual numbezl will leave the farms for a residence in town. Farm sales in. Noble. countyi have been numerous this winter.

| May Bar Pistols From Mall, l Bills excluding from the. mails - pistols and literature concerning -fraudu[lent devices and lotteries. were. ap‘proved by a subcommittee.of the house of congreéss postoffice committee.. A — i Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Kilmer one evening last week entertained their pedro club of twenty members at their farm home south of Ragle lake. Foster’s Community Sale Thursday Feb. 25. Commencing ‘at neon. : . —————p Miss Golda Weade the teacherspent the week end with friends in Kikhart,

AIDS THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS importance of Thorough Mastication of Foed ls Hardly Properly ' ¥nderstood. “Chew your food well,” is a motto which should be written large on the walls of dining rooms, restauraats, and every other place where human beings gat. The reason is that in order to digest foed in the shortest possible time, and with the least possible effort, it must first be dissoived, and this can be accomplished only by adequate chewing. Just how much thorough chewing leasens the strain on the digestive apparatus can be seen by a very simple experiment. Take & oneinch.cube of hard, solid, non-porous sugar candy and drop it into a pint of water. It will take at least half an hour and perhaps much longer to dissolve, because .a cube of this size has only six square inches of surface exposed to the solvent action of the water. :

I, however, a similar cube of candy is broken into 100 smaller pieces before being placed in the water it will dissolve 10,000 times as quickly, because there is now 10,000 times as much surface area exposed. In digestion we have to deal not merely with simple solution but with the chemical conversion of insoluble into soluble substances—a much more difficult process. For this reason a one-inch cube of solid food would take much more than 10,000 times as long to digest as the same quantity which bhas been reduced to fine bits by the action of the teeth and the salival glands, : Science now believes that much moderr: dyspepsia arises from our having lost the habit of living on hard, dry fgoods. When all our food was so bard that it had toghe well chewed before we could swallow it our salivary glands were kept more active and our teeth cleaner, .

HUMOR OF COURTS OF LAW Cross-Examination Methods Seem to . the Layman to Border Somewhat * on the Ludicrous. . Did you ever sit and listen to a law‘yer as he cross-questioned a witness of the opposition? It takes a wonder‘ful and active mind to handle this, part of the trial. It runs something ‘like this: “How long did the defendant stay in the house?’ “About fifteen minutes.” “Did you have a watch?” (“No, sir” “You didn’'t have any watch?’ “No, sir.” “How did you know it was fifteen minutes?” “I ddn’t know.” “You didn’t know?” “No, sir.” “You didn’t say-you knew?” “No, sir.” “What did you say then?” “You asked: me how long he stayed in the house. I gave it as my opinion that he was there about fifteen minutes.” “Oh, you gave it as your opinfon that he was in the house about fifteen minutes?’ ‘“Yes, sir.” “As a matter of fhet he might have been in there more than fifteen minutes?” “Be. might have, yes.” ‘“He might ‘have?’ “Yes, sir.” “It might not have been fifteen minutes for all you know, fsn’t that a fact?” “Yes, sir, it 18" “If someone should come in‘to this court and swear that the de‘fendant was in this house thirteen minutes, you wouldn't be able success‘fully to dispute the statement?” “No, sir.” “What did he go into the house ‘for?"" “To make some arrangements ‘about his brotherdn-law’s funeral.” ““To make some arrangements about ‘hfs: brother-n-law’s funeral?”’ ‘Yes, sir” “Was his brother-in-law dead?" .Bafore the witness can answer, the ‘court intervenes: ‘“Court will now adJourn until 1:30. The jurors should be careful not to discuss this case, or any of the important testimony to .Which, they have been listening, with outside parties.”—Lamar Democrat.

: Hia Selection. . 4 Httle. boy, whose. birthday was fa November, was spending the summer with his grandma at her country 'home, and lavishly admiring the poBies. on the farm, whereupon he was luux, that. had he been born in the, gummer she would give him a pony Jor. & birthday present. . Upom. bis returm to the city his jiret lesson. at Sumday school was, abon the subject: “¥You must be born' '~ He immediately told the teacher @at he would like to be born next time in summer.

Falling. Leaves Suggested Aeroplane. . The. German aeroplane known as: the. taube, or dove, was invented by an Anstrian. When in India he noteed that the leaves of the zanonia tree as they fell, floated for a long distance before they settled. This he ‘found to be due to the peculiar shape [ of“ the leaves and the wings of his ‘seroplane he construeted on a simlar principle, 'whilst the body he fashfoned in the shape of a dove, The Ger‘man great general war staff approved. and improved: the design and adopted it for military use by sheathing it in steel. : Long Story. : * A garrulous lady, ill of a complaint of 40 years’ standing, had begun to describe its progress from the first, when the physician to whom she addressed herself ' interrupted her, saying he ‘wanted to go into the next street to Bee-a patient, and begged the lady to inform him how long it would take her to tell her story. The answer was 20 minutes. He asked her to proceed, and hoped she would endeavor, to finish by.the time he returned, ‘ " Favers were won at the pedro party entertained <by Mr. ‘and Mrs: Arthur Kelley:Friday . night by Mrs. W. C. B. Harrison and Mrs. Fred Weir for the ladies and W. H. Wigton and Dr. Keehn' for ‘the men. ‘ Now is the time to pay your subscription to the Banner.

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CARE IN FAS-iON!Nu BUGLE Making of Mstrument lsad in the, Army.is a Deli~ate, Compiicated o Prozcas, - Ai - : | From stari tc tinish, the making of. an army bugle !s a 'process ¢f much in. genuity and interect. A bugle may not at first sighi present a striking resemblance to its cousin, the coachhorn, but the opbs is practically & curled-up versfon of the cther, for, before the bugle is Lent into shape, it consists of a parrcw tube, 61 inches long. ] In the first stage of manufacture the bugle is cut out of sheet copper and rolled into two thin cylinders, technically known as the “bell” and the “branch.” The narrow tube, whichi is the “bell,” is gradually shaped out| on molds until the opening is the regular 4-inch diameter. It is then “spun” on a wonderful machine, and an expert workman takes the rough edges off the copper. - :

Both sections are afterwards fillled with molten lead, preparatory to the bending stage, and it is this solid stuffing which prevents the tube breaking in the process, and allows it to| keep its shape. The expert workman,: with the aid of a formidable lever and hammer, bends the bugle into the familiar shape, the lead being subsequently melted out at a charcoal furnace, after which the instrument isl sent off to the polishers. One of the most intricate parts of! the bugle is the mouthpiece, which is made of nickel silver and turned dut on a special lathe. With the mouthpiece fixed, the instrument is ready: for the testing-room.

LIKE A MOURNING DRAPERY Interested Colored Spectators Brought Facetious Remark From Member : of Their Race. The darky has a sense of humor peculiarly his own, and he by no :means objects to a joke with reference to his. color—provided he makes it ‘himself, according to a story that was told by Champ Clark. ' : “There is a darky in Missouri who has acquired considerable remown in 'his locality for his taste in landscape ‘gardening. He was employed in sétting out shrubs on the lawn of his em‘ployer. The owner of the place was ‘'nowhere to be seen, but a number of the gardener’s friends were leaning ‘comfortably on the fence at the foot .of the lawn, watching the operations with '/ absorbed interest. @ Another ‘darky, who was driver for a physician ‘living near, looked curiously at this row of spectators, and thus addressed ‘the doctor, who was getting into his buggy: - : “ ‘Doctah’ (very solemnly), ‘dere’s somebody dead at Mistah Jones,’ shore.’ L - “‘Dead? said the doctor. ‘No such ‘thing, Tom. 1 should have heard of it if there had been any illuess in the family.’ ’ ’ _ ““‘Well, doctah,’ said Tom, pointing to a row of sable individuals who were hanging on the picket fence, ‘ef dere ain’'t nobody dead at Mistah Jones, den what fo’ is all dis heab mournin’ strung along de femce?” .

, Beating the Record. , A lot of people seem to put in a lot of time thinking about whether their lives are successful or failures. Usually they try to measure them by the life and success of someone else, and the result isn’t often satisfactory. They’re bound to come to the conclusion that there are some records they can’t equal. If they are beating some other records the suspicion creeps in that it isn’t much credit, anyhow. Of course the real trouble is that anybody who’s really making good always has gsomething better to do than cast up the accounts of his own achievements. There’s only one record to compare yourself by, and that will never result in self-satisfaction on the one hand or discouragement on the other; for it’s your own record.—Milwaukee JourB T : - Genulne Herolsm, : The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of. generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself to the world. The heroig cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. If you would serve your brother, because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken) the monotony of a decorous age. It? was a high counsel that I once heard; glven to a young person: “Always do what you are afraid to do.”—Emerson. ;

Why Cement Walks Are Not Slippery. There is a reason why cement pavements are not as slippery during a sleet-storm as bricks or paving siones. A cement sidewalk which has been broperly constructed is laid with a considerable foundation, placed a few inches under the crushed stone, cinders or sand. The paving is laid on top of this, and the heat from the earth has a chance to warm the foundation material. : . , The cement being a degree or two warmer than stone or brick, and receiving the heat of the earth through the foundation materials, ice will melt on the surface quicker than on :nost other paving materials. ‘ 3 BRARR eo S S SRS - Deputy Collector Here. - Carl Graham deputy revenue collector was at the Farmers & Merchants Trust Company Friday and Saturday computing income taxes. Foster's Community Sale Thursday Feb. 25. Commencing at noon. |

Has Birthday Party. Richard son ¢f Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Newton enterta:ned his school teachers and the pupils in his room at A party Friday withk dinaer at the Philadelphia , ilie occasion being his geventh birtiiday anniversary. The twenty-six guests present enjoyed a fine time.. Bottom Drops Out, i The bottom has fallen out of the peppermint oil market. Not so many weeks ago oil was in demand at $2B a pound the highest price ever Tes corded. Now it is less than $18.50 per pound, with supply exceeding demand. ' , Asessors to Start Work. The township assessors will meet ‘with County Assessor Bouse in Albion for their instructions early in March ':md will begin the appraisal of personal property about March 15. Real -estate will not be assessed this year, ’W{slfi(-t (‘onference, : The Goshen district conference of the M. E. church will be held in Wolcottville Tuesday March 2. Pastors from towns and cities of the district will be present, :

' Foster’s Next Sale, | Foster’s next communty sale will be held next Thursday February 5..’5.l There will be the usual stock and other articles to offer. : : Mr. and Mrs: Charles Ramsby have moved from near Topeka to the E. D. Melntire farm, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY ~ Services in Wair Block. Sunday school 9:45 A. M. ‘ Lesson Sermon 1100 A. M. Subject—Christ Jesus. Wednesday -evening testimonial heeting 8:00 P. M. Everybedy welcome. S . de b » Farm For Rent—2oo acres good stock and grain farm one mile from Cromwell. Inquire Mrs. Jennie Sheets Bartholomew. Ligonier, Ind. 48atf Modern Property For Sale, For Sale the residence property of thel ate 1. A. Palmer located 219 E. Third street. ® Modern Brick house .of 9 rooms and bath, one car garage. Phone 8810 or inquire of Mrs. Walter Wolf, Ligonier. Also a portion of out lot 16 rear of Weir hardware old site. "of Banta-Bender refrigerator plant. - blatf

: Notice to Bidders. ' ‘ Notice is hereby given on Thursday evening March 11th 1926 at seven o’clock the Common Council of the City of Ligonier Noble County Indiana will at the Counecil room in the city Hall in said City receive bids for and let to the lowest and best bidder, the contract for the sweeping and cleaning of the paved streets and alleys in said city in accordance with specifications thereof now on file in the office of the City Clerk of said City. By order of the Common Council. ' Joseph (. Kimmell, City Clerk , : ‘ 52alw _ Notice of Administration. Notice is _hereby given that the undersigned has been duly appointed administrator of the estate of Josephine Jeffries, deceased, late of Noble County, Indiana, and the heirs of said decedent, the creditors of her estate, and all other persons interested therein will be governed accordingly. Said estate is supposed to be solvent, : v Alfred O. Jeffries, Administrator Bothwell & Vanderford, Ligonier, attorneys for the estate 50a3w

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