Ligonier Banner., Volume 61, Number 9B, Ligonier, Noble County, 14 April 1927 — Page 2

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O. A. BILLMAN Wind Mills, Tanks, Pumps, - Water Systems, Etc. : 1 Well Drilling* Phone 333 - LIGONIER Next door to Ford Garadse Harry L. Benner Auctioneer ‘Open for all engagemends - Wolf Lake, Indiana - Both Noble and Whitley County Phones : Bothwell & Vanderford ~ - Lawyers ' Phone 156. Ligonier. Indiana

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5 o = . 7, - s 2 1522'-& ey Rel S 2.0 & T 4 5 S 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 13 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 707, e XU <./ 07 PN, f T A 7; $ 5 5 i‘Y‘;,( -,.,‘!_? AA4 / % ‘,f// e //(/ /, 7 (At 1% e Al A < b ALY ——— e e e e s The Ligonier Banner . Established 1856 Published by : : - THE BANNER PUBLISHING CO. W. C. B. Harrison, Editor M. A. Cotherman, Manager A T e e 3 e e A AAN A S RIS, Published every Monday and Thursday and entered the Postoffice at Ligonier, Indiana, as second class matter. A e A sAs T A TSTTSR U TR AABRT, : Elkhart Man Suiecides. Earl Whittaker, 37, an employe of the Big Four roundhouse at Elkhart committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid some time Sunday in a house near Five Points four miles west of Union. The body clad in underwear and socks 'was round across a bed in an upstairs room.. The man’s wife, Minnie Pearl Whittaker, who had filed suit‘for divorce some time ago, had rented the house for a storage building and was living with her brother Orrie Williams, near there. A note was left by Whittaker but it was taken by the coroner of Cass county, who could not be reached. Family troubles were thought to be the cause for the act. : : Wabash Youth Hurt. Dwight Wallace 20 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wallace living at Wabash is in the county hospital with about four inches of the ulna bone in ‘his right forearm blown away and the arm and hand badly lacerated from the discharge of a shot gun. : . The young man and his brother Dan 16 had the shotgun in a boat with them. In attempting to take the gun from the boat the trigger caught exploding the shell the chidrge of which passed through Dwight's arm. Doctors said it was not likely that amputation would be necessarv:

Four Fail in Jail Delivery. For the third time since he was arrested nearly a year ago Tommy O’Brien alias Thomas Young charged with the murder of L. C. Kreidler South Bend druggist has been an inmate of a jail in which prisoners either escaped or attempted to escape. Four prisoners in the jail at South Bend where O’Brien is held made a bid for freedom by atacking two>trusties and two deputy sheriffs with pepper and clubs, but were finally subdued. \ The Blackaller Players in “The Man From Colorado’”, a story of an Americanized Englishman, a splendid play—‘a.lso regular picture program at Crylstal Friday pight .. . Walb Gets Ditech Contraect. : Clyde Walb of LaGrange was Monday awarded a contract for a dredged ditch about 12 miles long in Harrison and Concord townships, Elkhart county, on his bid of $13,250. The estimate was $16,840. The work is to be completed within g year. Hold Driver After Accident. i After an automobile accident at Fort Wayne in which C. Herring aged 72 residing on the Lima.road north of that city was seriously injured, Herman Unger Wayne hotel was arrest. ed on charges of reckless driving. ;

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Passion Week at U. B. Church ‘Thursday at 7:30 Hoiy Communion. The service will ‘be largely of song ‘Woven around the utterances from the cross. : : & - : Friday from noon untl 2:00 the prayer and meditation with the piano playing softly. A memorial offering will be placed on the altar. = Good Friday union service in the‘ Presbyterian chureh at 2:30. Rev. Bacheler will bring the message. Special music will be rendered. ‘ Easter egg hunt. The children of the Junior church should be at the tourist park Saturday at 2:30. Parents please see that the children are there on time. Children will remember that if it rains the egg hunt will be postponed until Monday. Rev. and Mrs. F. A. Risley accompanied by Mrs. H. H. Decker Mrs. Mattie Goshorn and Mrs. Jacob Smalley attended the county convention of the W. C. T. U. at Wolcottvile. Mrs. ‘Stanley the state president presented startling facts regarding enforcement and propaganda of the people who are law abiding also the men that are determined to put a blight upon American youth. ' - The Loyal Women of the U. B. church spent a pleant evening in the social hour. Games and splendid supper werep art of the evening’'s program. ; )

; Wawasee Musican Dies. ‘ A chemical analysis of the contents of the stomach of Robert Grau 27 who died at the Lincoln dance hall where he was a musician, early Monday morning revealed the presence of a quantity of wood alcohol. This was given as the cause of his death by Dr. Edgar N. Mendenhall county coroner of Fort Wayne. Grau played in the orchestra for dance until after 10 o’clock Sunday night and then became ill.- He was taken to a rest room in thedancehall and placed in bed. He died about 1:30 o’clock Monday morning. Grau was known to many Ligonier persons having been a member of the Ross Franklin orchestra at Wawasee last summer.” He continued playing with the Franklin orchestra at Wabash until after the the holidays, but had not been connected with that organization for several months. Grau played a trumpet and cornet. e Dead Man Found. The body of a b5O- year old man identified as W. J. Hart was found Monday evening in an alley in South Bend by John Lochmondi and Frank L. Major carpenters working on a store building. L » Fully clothed but devoid of valuables the body bore no marks of violence. The body was still warm when ith’e men came upon it. { ' Coroner Carl C. Reifeis arter a preliminary examination stated that death might have happened from natural causes as the aged man walked through the alley. - i Neighbors in the vincinity stated that shortly before the body was found an automoble drove into the alley stopped and then puiled away.

Must Give Bondor Go to Jail. Shirely Kline 35 years old pleaded pleaded guilty to a charge of tfailing ta support his four children when arraigned in the circutt court before Judge James S. Drake at Goshen and was sentenced to the state prison at Michigan City for one to seven years. The court then gave Kline until Saturday to provide bond insuring payment of $l2 a week for the support of the children for a period of two years. If the bond is provided within that time Kline’s sentence will be suspend ed. Kline was arrested at South Bend Sunday and taken back to . (Goshen He has been beforg the court several times before on thes ame charge. L eTN A WO T : ' Deputy Prosecutor Resigns Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Harry E. Vernon of Goshen announced Tuesday morning that he had tendered his resignation Monday afternoon to Prosecutor Glen Sawyer of Elkhart effective April 20th. On recommendation of Aldo J. Simpson chatrman of ‘the Elkhart county republican committee Mr. Sawyer appointed Att’y George R. Harper of Goshen as Mr. Vernon’s successor. . : : Mr. Vernon has been deputy prosecutor in Elkhart county for five and a half years and has discharged his duties satisfactory in every way. :

More Oats per Acre || There is no crop which responds : more liberally to intelligent farming 4 THREE SOIL CONDITIONS FOR _ . OATS i IF THE soil is'poor and . . oats carelessly han-. . . dled the return will be rather poor, but better than from any cereal crop under llke conditions. 5 - JF SOIL is too rich with . . manure or organic mat- - ter, the straw will be tepder and will lodge in a o rain and wind storm. A short, stiff strawed vari-. ety should be selected. . . Lot ; gt . F SOIL is good and has i ; been cropped two or & more years, to corn with-'. . out much manure; or if - . sown following oats, bar- . ' ley, rye or wheat; if seed - 1s carefully selected, thor- .- oughly fanned to take out : ; af least one-third of the light kernels dnd chaff; - Is treated for smut and’is® . sown ‘early upon a well- . ger:tpared,ﬁﬁeed-» bed, the .

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Will Not Explain Reason. Mrs. Alice Van Dusen, once believed by the police to be the “torso victim"” washed up by the St. Jos"e'pl'x. river| at" South Belidin February refused to | explain her mysterious disappearance last December. L Mrs. Van Dusen, who returned to the home of her parents Tuesday, said she had been working' ow a farm near South Bend and that she had returned to complete divorce preceedings started shortly before she vanished. : , i Because of measurements of the headless body tallied with those of Mrs. Van Dusen, police had held ‘tho theory that he body was that of the missing woman. : ' This belief was strengthened when Mrs. Van Dusen failed to reappear after weeks of publicity regarding the case, : j ; Bowling Notes. The Williams team defeated the Green team by 16 pins. Frank McDaniel had high score with 210. S : Tuesday Mrs. Myron Kirkland had high score of 203. ; The Starr team defeated the Loy’s team. Mrs. A. Kelley getting high score with 189. e The Ligonier “Elks Bowling team composed of F. Rex, H. Damey, A. Biddle, T. Jeanneret W. Oyler defeated the Kendallville Elks in the roll off of the.series at the King Bowling alleys in Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon by 154 pins. The scores were. Ligonier - Kendallville 822 780 365 828 P3O : ' 845 2607 i 2453

Senior Class Play. “The Whole Town’s Talking” is the name of the play which the senior ciass has chosen for this year's production. It is a well known dnd popular comedy, containing not only clever lines but also comic situations. The title “The Whole Town's ‘Talking” indicates the nature o fthe plot, namely, that one piece of gossip can cause a lot of trouble.: e The seniors under the direction of Miss Palin have been reheasing their parts for the past two weeks and expect to have the play ready for production Thursday and Friday of next week. April 21 and 22, at the Hign sSchool auditorium. } ; ' - Fire Damages Farniture, : Damage estimated at close to $lOO was done to furpiture on a truuk driven by a Goshen man, while enroute to Kendallville Tuesday. The fire was noticed by Benton residents as the truck passed through that town and the driver was stopped after traveling a short distance. It is believed a-stranger, who was “given a lift” set the furniture on fire. The strénger could not be found when the truck was stopped. - See Viola Dana in “Homestuck” at Crystal Friday and Saturday.

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Sentenced to Farm. | Lloyd Norton, who was sentenced ' to the penal farm for thirty days and fined 310 and costs at Elkhart Tues- | day morning for public intoxication, lha’s ben taken to the farm to serve his ! sentence. R

Alpheus Snyder was taken to the hospital for insane at Logansport by Deputy Sheriff Frank Knisely of Elkhart county. :

A reward has been posted by the citizens of Orleans for the capture of the man who shot and seriously wounded Town Marshal William Guthrie Saturday night. ~ CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY ~ Services in Weir Block. . ‘Sunday school 9:45 A M Lesson Sermon 11:00 A. M. Wednesday eveniag testimonial neeting 8:00 P. M. Everybody welcome.

Notice of Appointment, - | Notice is hereby given tnat the undersigned has duly qualified as the administrator with the will annexed of William Stuff, deceased, late of Noble County, Indiana. Said estate is pending settlement in the Nobls Circuit Court of Indiana and is supposed to be solvent. i Edis,on L. Stuff, As Administrator with the will an- - - nexed of William Stuff, deceased: | - Notice of Appointment. : State of Indiana Noble County SS: Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator of the estate of Kthel Maggart deceased late of Noble County, Indiana. . Said estate is supposed to be solvent. - . Charles H. Dull Administrator of the estate of Ethel Maggaret, ~ deceased. g W. H. Wigton, Att’y. * Th3w

Notice of Sale of Bonds. Notice is hereby given that on the 29th day of April 1927, at two o’clock P:M., the undersigned County Auditor of Noble County Indiana, will offer for sale at his office in the Court House in the Town of Albion in sail County and State, an issue of $60,000.00 of bonds of said Noble County, Indiana. Said bonds will be 120 in number, all dated April 15, 1927, for the sum of $500.00 each, bearing interest at tke rate of 41%% per annum, payable| semi-annually on the 15th day of June | and December each vear as evidenced | by and upon the surrender of tiie aninexed coupons as they severally hecome due. , } Said bonds will mature and become payable serially as follows: the first! tseries of three bonds to mature on the 15th of June, 1928, and one series of three bonds each six months there-; after, until all are paid. l Said bonds have been issued in strict compliance with the laws of t.iu{! state of Indiana and pursuant to an' ordinance and order of the Countyi Council of said Noble County, Indiana, | and pursuant to the ordinance -;anri[ order of the Board of Commissioners of said Noble County, authorizing and directing said bonds to be issued for the purpose of providing funds for the construction of County Bridges in said Noble County, Indiana. : Said bonds will be sold according to law to the highest and best bidder for the same for not less than par value and accrued interest. . | The right is reserved to reject any | and all bids. : ‘ : . _ EDWIN SMITH, Auditor Noble County, Indiana. : & Bb3w

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