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The Ligonier (abifited 1856 : Published by THE BANNER PUBLISHING CO. W. C. B. Harrison, Editar M. A. Cothern?m}, Maﬁ P Published every Monday and fhursday and entered the Postoffice at Ligonier, Indiana, as second class matter. e e et Gasoline Consumption. “ The state gasoline tax depkrtulent collected $1,521,319.14 more during 1926 than in 1925 says a report issued by Archie N. Bobbitt state ghsoline tax collector. His report shows thai the number of gallons of gasoline reported to the department as sold during 1926 was 28,696,425 more than in 1925. ‘ Collections for the yédar werd $9,153,265.94 and the reports ,of sale were 305,983,147 gallons of gasoline. Weeks-Wolie : Laurel Weeks 25 mechani¢c and son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weeks who reside near Big Lake on the WhitleyNoble county line was wedded Dédember 24th to Miss Iva Wolfe daught'e:; of Lewis Wolfe of near Big Lake. ‘They will reside in Noble county. Mrs. Ed Belts was called to Toledo Wednesday by the sérfous illness of Mrs. E. A. Hoverstock a former resident of this city. : First Presbytertan Churech. Cavin Street Rev. G. H. Bacheler, Pastor ~ Residence 318 W Brd St. ~ Telephone 345. s | Services ~ Sunday School 9:30 A. M. % ‘Men’s Class 9:30 A. M. . ~ Preaching Service 10:46 A. M. Vesper Service 5:00 P. M. ‘ Y. P. S. C. E. Monday 7:00 P. M. - Mid weekk service Wed. 7:15 P. M. i Now is the time to pay your Banner subscription—DO IT NOW! o

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‘ . Attorisy Kftéhler Dies. = Attotney GESIES W. Kichler died at 18 hothe i Thufébusco Sunday 8f tiniooh. M 6 bhad been in failffiE health for SEVEEI years sufféfing ;fr'om yellow jajundiee and he had been ‘bad for the past four weeks, but had been up and down during that tfme. ‘He Become dangerously ill on Saturday night and at intervals was unconscious until a few minutes prior to his @Bath W#hen he relapsed into a staté of ‘cofa and ‘passed quietly away at the hour naméd. He was 43 years 3 whonths and 24 days old. Thé deceased was quite well known' in Noble coiinty and had practiced in the Noble circuit court. - Ola Age Pension Bill An old age péension bill similar to that passed by the Indiana senate two years ago will be relntroduced in thg comitig Bession of ths General Assembly by Setfiftor James J. Nejdl republican of Whiting, the senator announced. | ~ “I afii confi@ént the Senate will ‘aghin pass the meéasure,” Senator Nejdl informed International Wewgd Service” and I think we will be able to mustet enough strength in the hoiisb to put it through.” THo years dgo the bill passed thg seniite but was pigéonholed in the house. v Biiliiiice in State Tredsury. The state of Indiana had a balance of $16,545,746.92 in all of itg funds on Décembér 31 1926. L. S Bowitian stdte auditor dnnounced. - “The state is éntirely out of debt dxcept for constitutional ihdebtedness to Purdué university which cannot be strickén off the books.” Bowman satd. ' e The major portion of this sixteen and 4 half million dollar balance ‘i available for highway construction according to Bowman. Cotinty Agent Fails. : The gservices of T. A. Parker ag county agent are no fonger wanted in Kosciusko couity. This was mads evidént again when ths Kosciusko county board of eduéation consisting of the towiship trustees County Suplérintendent Hatty Lewellan and Pres: ident Flint E. Bash of the Warsaw school board voted 10 to 8 against approvil 6f Mr. Parker’s reappointfﬁ’ént. g [

Wineés and Heer BilL. Violation of the prohibition laws i 3 ramipant in the national cdpital un, der the ioses of goveriment officials) Rep. Cochran (d) of Missouri declar, ed in introducing a light wines and béér bill in congress. : Coehran dsserted he had figures from the police departméit showing that 19,209 pérsonid were arrested in the capital dufing 1926 for violation of the dry laws ifistéad of the 5,305 announced by the police. Bowiiiig Notés. ‘ Willidin Green 1774 1783 1753 ' 1908 B. Inks 225 A. O: Shearer 203 BMrs. Shearer 204 Stafr détetitéd Loy Thursday by 5¢ ‘{ Ray Loy 208 Mrs. Shedier 181 . Attacked By Gisnt Rat. | A glant rét attacked the 32. month old baby of Salvador Chavez at Indiana Harbor as the baby lay alone Ifr Its Béd. ~ The sCréanits of the child ds it attempted to ward off thé attdcker brought Mrs. Chavez. The child's nose had been nearly bitten off. ‘ | e e ; Entertain Party. | . The other evening the Lincoln Cafeq entertained a party of twenty-two at an elaborate dinner. The guests were from Albien. The husbands of the Thimble Club members were standing treat to the dinmer and a performance at Crystal later. _ ! Fosters Next Sale. 1 ~ George Foster's next . Community' sale will be held Wednesday January ilz and promises to be a big one. 1 Allan Willits has returned to Chi» cago after spending the holidays at home. _ . ; __ Phone 285 | JOHN W. CASS ; " Successor to Now is the %ﬂo pay your Banuer subscription—DO IT NOW! G

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Dedith of Melvin Jack#on. Melvin J¥ekson, botn in lm:r B 4 yedrs &0, dfea of Heaft disease ¥onday n@. Januaty 3, 1987, at the. tiome ‘6f his parents Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Jackson on South Caviy stréet. The deceased had been living with Mrs. Jackson at Fort Wayne, but when thé tile came that he could no longer perform his duties as care, taker of the Irene Byron sanitarium groyhds he was brougnt to the home of his parents where the end cam®, Sdrviving Melvin Jacksonh are his Widow, two children, Mrs. Fred Fieldj of Eikhart, and Victor Jackson of Toledo, a sistér Mrs. Claredée E. Denhing and a brother Wallace Jackson, both of this city. i - Mel Jackson as he was known to his friends was of a genial and happy dispositio nand was well likéd. He will be missed. ' : | The funeral was held . this attersi noon at two o’clock from the Thomas Jackson home with ‘ purial in Odk Park. > : : 1 Blisters His Opponents. Gifford Pinchot, for four years governor of Pennsylvania, went befofre the legislature Tuesday and read a valedictory bitterly pitterly denouncing his political opponents. The so-called “Pittsburgh machine” undér Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasiiry, was a target for Pinchot’s fire. The retiring governor termed it an organization of ‘“vice den keepers, harlots, criminals and gangsters.” : : -Pinchot also dipped into vitriol in gpeaking of ‘William S. Vare, republican senator-elect. He predicted Vare would never take his senate seat which was “partly bought and - partly stolen”, G : The gubernatorial message was one of the longest ever delivered. Pinchot appeared before a joint meeting of the legislature at noon and read a 17,000 word message and a 45,000 word detailed report of his administration. 3

K. K. K. to Banquet Members. While rival camps in republican and democratic legislative ranks comntinued preparations for their respeca tive caucuses, the Indiana Ku Klux Klan came out Tuesday with the announcement that the legislative pros gram it will support in. the seventyfifth session of the Indiana general assembly;, convening Thursday would be determined at a banquet in Indi, anapolis. ; : : : The banquet “will be given in honor' of certain state senators and state representatives who are members of our organization”, says the invitation sent out by State Grand Dragon W, Lee Smith, adding that “the necessary organization will be themn and there perfected that will guarantee the pros per understanding and cooperation.”

Conrad Funral. The remains of Frank Conrad werd laid in Salem cemetery Tuesday afternoon. ‘He is survived by his widow one daughter Mrs. Arthur Holmes of Battle Creek; ome son, Veryl Conrad of Ligonier; three sisters, Mrs. Anna Schick, Mrs. G. Bailey, of Middlebury, and Mrs. Oliver Haas of Mishawaka: six brothers, Edson and Alonzo of Go shen; Claude of Rome City; John of Ligonier; Ben of Ligonier; Shirley and Howard of Albion. Ten to Twenty-Five Years. Entering pleas of guilty to charges of automobile banditry in connection with the attempted holdup and shooting of William Strauss, Waynedale grocer, Carl Galbraith, 33, and his brother-in-law, Clarence Liloyd, 18, both of Marion, were sentenced to 10 to 26 years in prison by Judge Sol A. Wood in the Allen circuit court. e Two Get Theirs. Leo Armstrong, 22, a member of the Jack Butler bandit gang, and Ralph W. Harwood, 21, of Huntertown, each received a sentence of 2 years in the Leavnworth pentitentiary when they pleaded guilty to bringing stolen autompobiles into the state before Judge Thomas W. SHck in federal court at Fort Wayne. = Thieves Take Two. ‘Will Sack lost two el'eetrical.'ly‘ equipped Christmas trees by theft: during the holidays. One large tree designed for the Elks lodge was the first to go and later the second was stolen from in front of the Sack Bakery. Mr. Sack offers $lO reward for information which will lead to the identity of the thief or thieves.

: Leakage of Heart Fatal, : 4 - Funeral services were held Monday afternoon for Mrs. Dililah Clayton; 72 who died Saturday of leakage of the heart in Washington township. Two sons survive, Lerton at whose homg |she died and Andrew, both of Noble feounty. She -had been a resident of Noble county for 34 years. : Daughter of Pioneer Dead. . | Miss Margaret Hardman; 85; daugh. ‘ Jter of Dr. Jacob Hardman, the first ‘'medical practioner in St. Joseph coun jty, died Monday at Marion, where shg had lived for twelve years. The body: will be %rought back to South Bend for burial. ,- poR el - Another Holiday Present.: ' ~ James Furgeson has. made C. C: Green, of Jamestown, New York, 'a’ present of the Bannmer for the yedr 1927 aa a New Year's gift. . On January 26 1927, at my attica I-will sell subject to approval -of. No- | ble Ofrcuit Cougt 40 acres of land im| Bikhart Twp., belonging to Frankdin | Minfer estate. Inquire of Fred Li} %onhattpr Admr. Kendallville,- Indlana. T e Subscribe for the Ligonier Banner

Miss MEY Deckér returnedl Wednes dB¥ to her ﬁ«i‘;‘m St. Matyh aced- ~ Notfee of Fitinl Sétflemént. State of Indiana Noble County ss: _ln the matter of the .estate of Lauren L. Cole, Deceased. No. 2867 . . - _ In the Noble Circuit Court January Term 1927. : ~ Notice 18 Heréhy given, that the undersignéd as Admintstrator of the ‘estate of Lauren L. Cole Deceased has filed in sald court his account and vouchers in final settlement of sald @state, and that the samé will cdiie up for examination and action of said oourt, at the court house, at Albion, Indiana, on the 29 day of January 1927 at which time and placé all persons interested In salfl eStdteé are require@ to appear In Bald court and show cause, it any there be, why sald account should not be approved. : And the héirs, devisees and legatses of said decedent, and all others interésted in sald estate, are also hereby required &t the time and place aforesaid, to aglpw and make proof of their héirship or claim to any part of said éstate. State Bank of Kimmell Administrator Posted Decémber 27 1926 : W. H. Wigton, Atty. 45b2w Be SR s i Notice of Final Settlement. State of Indiana Noble County ss: In the matter of the estate of George W. Fahl, Deceased No. 2881 _ . In the _Noble Circuit Court January Term 1927. « Notice 18 hereby given, that the undersigned as executrix of the Estatd of George W. Fahl deceased has filed in said court her account and vouch; ers in final settlement of said Estate and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Court, at the Court House at Albion Indiana on the 29 day of January 1927 at which time and place all persong interested in said estate are required to appear in said Court and show cause if any there be why said account shounld not be approved. And the hetrs, devisees and legatees of said decedent, and all others interested in said estate, are also: hereby required at the time and place aforesaid, to appear and make proof of their neirship or claim to any part of said estate. ; June Borger Executrix Posted December 27th 1926 W. H. Wigton Atty. . 45bt2w. RA s A ROUND AND SQUARE Opera House, Cromwell SAT. NIGHT, JAN. Bth ' Dancing at 8 ' JOHN DULL; Manager

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