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

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Dr. Maurice Blue VETERINARIAN Office: Justamere Farm. {Phone: Ligonier 857

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Published every Monday and Thursday and entered in the Postoflice at Ligealer, Ind., as second class matter.

Yery Mysterious Death,

. Mystery surrounding the death of Thomas F. Dodge 83 years old a real estate broker of South 'Bend remained as deep as ever today. Coroner C. E. Crumpacker has announced that an inquest will be held next Mcnday in an effort to uncover some clue. The aged’ man was found dead in his room where he lived alone. The body was found leaning against a wall, close to a 'gas heater which was burning. It was at first thought that he had died of heart trouble but the undertaker discovered horrible burns on several parts of the body, and although Mr. Dodge was fully clothed there were no marks of fire on the clothing. Even Mr. Dodge’s heels showed several burns. . It is now believed that robbers tortured the aged man in an effort to extort money from him, and afterward clothed the body.

- File Mortgaga Exemptions. : March 1 is the opening date for the filing of mortgage exemptions and they may be filed any time from then until the first Monday in May. There are two classes of exemptions Mortgage exemptions may be obtain ed up to $l,OOO through not exceeding one-half of the assessed valuation of the real estatee. ‘ The soldier's exemptions apply only to Civil War veterans and they may receive an exemption up to $l,OOO if they ‘are not the owners of $5,000 worth of property. If their assessment is $5,000 or more they are not entitled to exemption. This applies to both personal and real estate. Mortgage exemptions may be filed before the auditor or any notary publie, : :

Aceuses Elkhart Doctor,

Mrs. Gladys Klingel 35 of - South Bend was arrested on charges of violating the narcotic act and when arraigned before United States Commissioner Thad Talcott said that an Elkhart doctor had given her the prescriptions. Mrs. Klingel was charged with forging prescriptions, and is being held under $l,OOO bond, while hen charges are being investigated.

217 Miles Improved Roads,

Elkhart county at the present time has 217.38 miles of improved highwaysg not including the state highways in the county according to a report made by County Highway Superintendent Harley A. Firestone. Of this mileage 74.14 miles are concrete 21.21 miles are brick 3.15 miles are macadam and 118.99 miles are gravel. :

Airman Goes Astray.

Paul V. Brown an Indianapolis newspaper reporter chartered an airplane to make a quick trip to Evansville where rioting had been indulged among coal miners. After a flight of several hours a landing was madg near. Kendallville. e !

One Dead, Two Injured,

One girl is dead and two men are seriously injured today as the result of a crossing accident near Wabash. The dead girl is Marie Barton 20 and the injured are Louis Gillespie 20, and Dwight Usher 22. :

Guaranteed Used Car Plan.

Even more authentic than the firsg robin as a herald of coming spfing, is the start of activity in the used car market. On used car lots and in dealers’ garages all over the country, prospective owners are inspecting thousands of cars which will be seen this summer on highways and boulevards. Used car buying, however, is on a new basis. The old order of bargaining is gone, for buyers have learned that the concern whose reputation is staked upon the kind of service it renders the public, is the most reliable place to buy the “unused mileage” represented in a used moton car. ' Interesting in that connection -is the first anniversary of the Ford guaranteed used car plan, which has not only raised to a new height pubblic confidence in used Ford -cars, but due to the fact that approximately half the cars in use are Fords, has gone a long way to stabilizing this phase of the automobile industry. The plan is made simple and positive in operation by the fact that each car s guaranteed individually by one whaq is in the best position to know tts pogsibilities the Ford dealer. By virtue of the fact that every community has its authorized Ford servce he local dealer maintains perservice the local dealer maintains percars handled through this agency. When the car is eventually turned in, he frequently knows just about how far it has been driven and the kind of driving to which it has been subjected If the car needs reconditioning when [turned in the dealer is in a position to give it the needed mechanical at‘tention at the lowest possible cost and ‘when ready for service, can defintely determine the amount of mileage it Bhould deliver the price depending entirely upon this unused transportation. v , L Public acceptance of the Ford used car plan is clearly indicated in' reports made to the company general offices in Detroit. : ; b - The March term of the Noble circuit court opened in Albion today.

BOWLING NOTES

Green-Williams teams rolled Monday evening and the Williams team won by 16 pins. Mrs. Shearer getting high score for the ladies with 157 and C. Hutchison for the men with 202 The score: _ Green Williams 1801 j 1763 - 1739 35566 3450 - 3556 The Smith team defeated the Wertheimer team on Tuesday evening, Miss Harsh getting high score with 5T ; ~ | The Loy team defeated the Starr team on Thursday evening by 133 pins. Mrs. Shearer getting high score for the ladies with 200 and F. Starr for men with 221 ‘ In the league Wednesday evening the Rex team rolled high of the season when they rolled 896 pins. League Standing : , Won Lost shigler ... ... ... 27 9 o Ostrander ... 40 22 14 Bigher .oo 0 8 18 Hex eoo o g 00 Ovler .o oo o 0 14 22 Hamiey oo 10 26 The League scores are - Dot Rex ... .. 188 195 123 R Rex ...~ .. 114 191 136 i Miller ... 149 129 119 K Head ... ... 148 183 = 120 il Bex ... .. 158 198 145 Totals ... 750 896 643 Ostrander ......... 172 180 150 Eversole ................ 138 164 123 M Miller ... ... 140 140 14p H Sacks ... 140 140 140 Hox oo 4n o dds o lag Totals ... 737 767 684 foehran ... ... 108 = 170 132 Rupert ... .. - 140 | 140 140 Branks:. . 195 132 135 e 010 2 g Higher ... ... 143 136 138 “Potals ... . 620 789 716 Biddle ... ... 154 110 198 Buvkhart ... .. 154 172 150 Oyler .. ... . 159 140 134 Inks_ e 140 140 140 Mwers .. 140 140 149 Totals ... ... 740 702 692,‘ Rioev. ... . 138 184 153 ek .. ... IR7 g 9 g 4 Woodruft ........... 150 134 145 Hpert ......... 188 147 149 Shisler (0. .. 194 189 171‘ doa ... 187 823 72 Jeanerett .............. 134 149 148 Wes Vance ... 144 131 169 BDarnell ... 130 170 139' Glen Vance .......... 140 140 140 | Biwey ... 149 168 197 dotals .= . 6§97 754 7731

Surprise On Albion Minister.

A surprise o fconsiderable proporions was in store for the attendants at the local U. B. church last Sunday evening. Just as church was taking up a company of 30 or 40 members of the KuKlux Klan dressed in mystifying full regalia of that order put in an appearance seated themselves and maintained a stoic silence throughout the entire service. . At the close of the regular church service .one of the Klansmen asked for permission to speak and being given permission, presented the pastor of the church Rev. H. W. Franklin, with a large-sized roll of money, stating he was to use it in defraying the expenses incident to the illness of his wife who is at present an inmate of a Fort Wayne hospital and reported in a very precarious condition, The Klan spokesman also presented the church with two silk American flags.—Albion Demoecrat. ...

Mrs. Clemens Improved,

Mrs. Harry Clemens returned to her home here from the hospital-at Warsaw, where she underwent an operation for the removal of a cataract from one of her eyes. Mrs. Clemens is much improved as is also the afflicted eye.—Syracuse Journal. Mr. and Mrs. Clemens are former residents of Ligonier. <

Then He Quit.

Otto Mutlz has sworn off bootlegging at South Bend. After being arrested on a charge of possession of liguor he helped the officers dump 1,000 gallons of beer, 200 gallons of mash and 52 gallons of wine valued at more than $3,500 into a sewer. : A

The March Meeting.,

The March meeting of the Noble county Horticultural Society will be held at the U. B. church in Albion Thursday March 18. A picnic dinner will be held at noon. The Bennett family of Indian Village is moving to Ligonier.

Nearby Deaths.

Mrs. Barbara Simanton 84 senility Auburn Mrs. Catherine Smith 70, neuralgia of the heart, Goshen, A. H, Ellwood 87 church architect senility Elkhart, Mrs. Martha Rapp 52 heart trouble Elkhart. ;

" Syracuse and Wawasee cottagers are petitioning for the extension of the Goshen gas pipe line to those places, but with what success has not been learned.

Mrs. Bertha Hapner and son Kenneth of Solomon Creek spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs., Jefferson Hire at Ligonier. Mr. Hire has been quite ill the past week.

Mr. and Mrs. John Sparrow have returned to their home after spending the winter with their daughter Mrs. ‘W. R. Jasper. :

Mr. and Mrs. Chester Searfus and son Leland of this city were guests of Benton friends one day last week.

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HISTORIC OLD WORK IS LONDON BRIDGE

Structure Had Origin Many Centuries Ago.

On March 15, 1824, one hundred years ago, the first pile of the London bridge of today was driven deep into the bed of the Thames. The present granite structure is the work of ‘Sir John Rennie (though his father actually designed the bridge) and was seven and a half years in the building. This was because work had to be begun in a hole. The authorities of that day insisted that Sir John build immediately above the old bridge, the latter to be left standing until the new one was finished, Now, the old bridge, built way back in eleven hundred and something, stood on a hill, the foundations of the plers being 28 to 30 feet above the bottom of the river on either side, this being the effect produced upon the river bed by the scour of the tides, up and down, For hundreds of years London bridge had been a kind of dam, 700 feet of the river's 900 feet of width at low water being at one time occupied by piers; consequently the passage of the waters through the many arches resembled a torrent. Eight hundred men were employed on the new bridge, and of these forty lost their lives through accidents of various kinds. The corporation paid almost a million and a half pounds on the bridge and its approaches. It is a tradition that you cannot cross London bridge without seeing a white horse. Once upon a time one couldn’t cross it without seeing -also heads, human heads, fresh from the executioner’'s basket. Henry VIII especlally was fond of decorating the bridge with heads. There is a story that the bishop of Rochester’s head was placed on the bridge and remained fresh and lifelike for two weeks, so that crowds collected to see the miracle, an incident which annoyed the king so much that he - ordered it thrown into the river, This was done, but they put Sir Thomas More’s head in) its place.

John N. Willys, of automobile fame, told a New York reporter an.automobile story. : - : “A green automobilist was driving his new car along a country road,” he said. “The car clanked a good deal, but the automobilist enjoyed the scenery and the crisp autumn air just the same. * ‘Hey, mister! : . “A farm hand held him up. “ ‘Hey, mister, there’s an iron rod draggin’ on the ground under yer car.’ “The automobilist got out, crawled underneath and fiddled with the rod awhile, but he couldn’t make anything of it. So he said hopefuilly to the farm hand as he got in againz i - “‘T guess maybe she’sssupposed to, brother.”” - :

~ Marguerite dispenses coffee and sandwiches and other @electables at one of the busy downtown lunch counters, according to the Indianapolis News.” Busy straightening things, preparatory to the noom rush, she called to the porter, “Here, Sheik, take this can off the counter.” ; “Don’t you know his name yet, Marguerite?” asked one of her co-work-ers. “It's George.” : “Oh, I can’t take time to remember,” replied Marguerite, “and besides all you have to do is yell. ‘Good-look-in’’ or ‘Sheik’, and they all turn their heads and you can pick out the man you want!”

Little Frances was telling her mother about the good time she had when she visited her five cousins. “Mother,” she said seriously, ‘“we played church.” “What did you do when you played church? I cannet think what that would be like,” replied her mother. _ “Well,” said Frances, *we fell down on the ground and turned somersaults.” “Turned somersaults when playing church?” exclaimed her horrified mother. ' “Well, mother,” explained Frances apologetically, “you see, by that time church had turned into a circus!”

Mouse Made Trouble

- Anybeody that wants a patent on a combination mouse trap and carburetor can have it, according to Francis Morin of Uxbridge. For the last few days when he stepped on the gas, the engine would work for a short time, then die down. Investigation finally led to the carburetor. When a tiny mouse, securely tucked away there, was removed, the engine purred steadily. It 1s supposed that the mouse crept into the warm intake air pipe some night in the garage and was sucked into the carburetor when the engine was started.—Boston Globe,

“Modern efficiency methods are not exaggerated in the ineident in ‘Beggar on Horseback’ in which the hero trieg unsuccessfully to get himself a pencil,” says a downtown business man. “I know of a case in Detroit which is nearly like it. A workman employed in a Detroit factory, where stools are not permitted, asked for a stool so that he could steady his arms on the edge of the workbench while doing particularly fine work. Tt took exact_ly two hours and forty minutes for the requisition to go through the various departments.”—Detroit News.

A. W. Lyon is home from a week’'s treatment in a Fort Wayne hospital much improved. : 3

Little Phyllis MecDaniel who had been among the seriously sick is much improved which her many little friends will be glad to hear.

The Green Driver

All in a Name

A New Seet

Time and Efficiency

Says Mongolians Were , Red Men’s Ancestors - That the American Indians had an ancestry common with the Mongolian tribes of Siberia and crossed to Alaska over the Bering sea are conciusions of Johm P. Harrington of the Smithsonlan institution. : ‘Mr. Harrington arrived at this belief after extensive research on the Pacific coast. He fixes the discovery of America by the Indian at more than 20,000 years ago. Explaining his beHef that the Indians went directly to Alaska across the Bering sea, instead of over the chain of Aleutian islands at a time when the islands may have been an isthmus connecting the two continents, he says: : From a long strip of Siberian coast the Alaskan “shore is in plain sight across Bering strait, which at one point is only 50 milés in width. The two small Diomede islands alse help to break the passage. This strip of water at times is frozen over and could have been crossed either on the ice. or in boats which were made by the Indians even at the earliest times.” Mr. Harrington discounts the theory advanced by some anthropologists that the Indians migrated from the Polynesian islands. “From my studies of the Indian races of the Pacific coast I believe that the Indians, after crossing from - Siberia, gradually spread from Alaska down the Pacific coast and thence over all North and South America. This is based on the singularity of physical characteristics, the widespread occurrence of customs and myths and-an exhaustive study of the languages.” | : a

Synthetic Ice Appears

- Synthetic ice is made in New York and has been shown in Boston as one of the ultra modern novelties, an indication of what the future may bring into the American home. It is carbon dioxide solidified, chremically it is only CO2, used as gus in the soda fountain and taken in your cooling drink on a hot day. It is heralded as the solution of all questions pertaining to artificial refrigeration, lasts much longer-. than ice, leaves no moisture ‘when gone. A small piece in a cylindrical carton will give a North pole temperature to the ice box for ten hours, being 142 degrees colder than real ice, and a piece dropped into a glass of water will make it boil, throw off steam, while, in fact, the dry ice is being ‘coated with real ice It freezes from the disturbed water.—Ohio State Journal. .

Luxurious Air Travel

To be used in cross-channel service between France and England, a single 650-horsepower engined airplane, to seat 14 passengers, has been built in a British aircraft factory. It has a large, roomy cabin with wicker arm chairs for the passengers, ‘who will have a constant supply of fresh air by means of special ventilation. Emergency exits are provided in the room should it be necessary for passengers to emerge in case of landing on the sea, in which case the wheels, axle and undercarriage struts can be dropped by means of a lever in the pilot’s cockpit. The body of the machine is watertight and”buoyant and would float for several hours. '

Nothing Overlooked

John N. Willys, of automobile fame, sald on his return from Europe: “European hotel-keepers aren’t extortionate, but they—well, remind me of a story. L “An hotel-kéeper called on a doctor one day and said: o “‘Doc, how much gas does the average gas suicide inhale? , “‘I don’t know, sald the doctor. ‘Several hundred feet, I suppose. Why do you ask? “‘There was a gas suicide in my place last night,’ said the hotel-keeper, ‘and I want to charge his gas up to his executors.”” - : -

Region Rich in Mineral

Rich veins of radium, gold and other rare metals have been discovered in the Ekimchansky region of the Amur province, Siberia. A telephone line has already been constructed, -cooperatives organized and general signs of life are present in this formerly desolate region. New deposits of phosphates were recently found in fourteen different localities of the government of Voronesch. The total area of these localities covers about 140 square miles and the deposits are estimated at 125,000 tons.

Powerful Battieship

Can you imagine nine tons of deathdealing metal hurled for nearly twenty miles in a.single broadside? Such an almost unbelievable blast of huge projectiles will occur whenever Britain’s magnificent new 35,000-ton battleship Nelson lets loose her big guns. . For, says Popular Science Monthly, the Nelson, newly launched, will have the most powerful armament of any battleship in the world—nine 16-inch guns, each firing a projectile weighing more than a ton. In addition there will be a secondary armament of 6-inch: guns.

New Camphor Substitute

Hexeton, said to have all the properties of camphor, with two or three times its strength, is a new Gérman synthetic product. It is described as a clear, stable and sterile liquid, of a characteristic odor and bitter taste, and is expected to prove medicinally valuable. The assertion is made that it can be manufactured at a mere fraction of the cost of natural camphor. L o e Abe Ackerman and several other Fort Wayne bankers were in the city Friday, : e ;

* Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shell of near White Pigeon Mich., drove to ILigonier Friday and visited old friends and relatives in the county.

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