Ligonier Banner., Volume 61, Number 40A, Ligonier, Noble County, 14 November 1927 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banner! Established 1856 ¥ ~ Published by THE BANNER PUBLISHING CO. , - W. C. B. Harrison, Editor M. A. Cotnerman, Manager Published every Monday and Thursday and entered the Postoffice at Ligonier, Indiana, as second class matter. L EeeerEEß M F X of £ 4% RN B -T |} )| SR met? K b s ey (< AT S B v Locate Big Still, < Deputy Sheriff Glenn Banks of Goshen and a federal prohibition officer late Thursday discovered what probably was the largest still ever found in Northern Indiana, with the excep+ tion of the one recently urjzovered near South Bend. The still found by Banks and his assistant was located in a barn near the Michigan state liree, about seven miles northwest of Elkhart. | The officers found 65 200-gallon vats filled with mash, a large number of barrels and four or five truck loads of gallon cans, coils and other equipment. The main section of the operating part of the still had been removed. .

Trapping Season Opens. .The open season for trapping fur bearing animals opened November 10, last Thursday, and will close on February 15, 1928. Noble county is a great fur bearing district and has; mary trappers. | A few years ago muskr:t sking sold for 25 eents each. Today they bring $1,50, depending on -quality. Raccon skins used to bring around $l.OO top price, now the top is $B.OO, Skunk hides ~bring arourd $2.25, whereas, a few years back they were worth only 50 cents; oppossum $1.25, compared to 30 cents; mink, top price $9.00, former price being $2. o Mosher (ets 40-Year Term. William Mosher, 21, who was caught several weeks ago at his mother’s home near Lakeville by Deputy Shesit Joseph Cunnirgham and a posse ol Michigan state police, after Mosher had escaped form the state reformatory at Lincoln Neb., has been sentenced to serve 40 years in the Nebraska prison, according to informas tion just received, : : Mosher was cornwvicted of highway robbery shortly after his escape, and forced a motorist to carry him into Tewa at the point ofa wooden gun. Hearse in Collision. . The Rohrer hearse, owned by Undertaker Chas. Rohrer of New Paris, and a Ford car drivemm hy Louis Wicker collided on Indiana avenue and Main street in Elkhart Thursday afternoon, as Mr, Rohrer was bringing the body of Mrs. R. L. Haley to the home in New Paris. No one was injured, but both cars were brought to a stop in a yard in front of a house

Elkhart City Auto Stolen. A 1926 Ford roadster owned by the city and“used by Elkhart City Electrician Jack' E. Mahan was stolen from a parking place at theside of the Municipal buildirg in Elkhart between 4 and 6 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. The car was equipped with special license plates 1-136 with a star after the number. Railway Office Changes. . J. J. Petrilla, of Wauseon, Ohio, is now New York Central freight agent for Ligorder succeeding Mr. Sewell, {L.. M. Rohn has been promoted to second trick operator to succeed Harvey Gangwer who was made station agent at Wawaka. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT State of Indiana Noble County SS: In the matter of the Estate of Josephine Jefferies Deceased No. 2902~ ; In the Noble Circuit Court January Term 1928. Notice is hereby given that the urdersigned as Administrator of the Estate of Josephine Jeffries Deax ceased, has filed in said court his aca count and vouchers in final settlement of said Estate, and that the same will come up for the examination argd action of said Court at the Court House at Albion, Indiana, on the 3 day of January 1928 at which time and place all persons interested in said estate are required to appear in said Court ard show cause, if any there be, why said account should not ‘beapproved, And the heirs, devisees and legatees, of said decedent and all others ina terested in said Estate, are also herea by required at the time and placa aforesaid, to appear and make proof of their heirship or claim to any part of said estate. Albert O. Jefferies, Administrator Posted October 21st 1927 ; : State of Indiarm Noble County SS: The undersigned being duly sworn, on oath says, that for and on behalf of said Alfred O. Jefferies Administrator he posted a notice of which the above and foregoing is a full,strue, complete and exact copy at the cour house door of said courgy at the town of Albion therein, on the 21 day of Cctober 1927 the door at which said notice was so posted being the east door of said court house. . __Subscribed and sworn to hefore me this 21 day of October 1927. @ ~ Frances M. Beane, Clerk of thg‘i

COMMISSIONERS ALLOWANCES. Regular session Nov. 8 1927. ; The Noble Coufty Board of Commissioners with the full board present, Charles W, Bender, John W. Long and Noah F. Smith. Present also Edwin: Smith, County Auditor, and Chester Vanderford, County Attorney aryl John Singletcn, County Sheriff. The board was duly declared in session by the said sheriff. In the matter of Comanisinosners Allowances, the following bills were ailowed: - = ¢ Frances M Beane, salary $200.00 Frances M Beans, office exp 15,00 J Willie Beebler cl office exp 12.50 E. L. Adair supplies 12.60 ‘B. R. Matteson supplies 4.00 Wm B Burford supplies 210.48 Georgiana Erwin, ¢l hire 100.99 Edwin Smith salary 262.50 Edwin Smith office exp 4.54 B R Matteson supplies ‘ 11,25 E J Parker supplies 5.00 J willie Beehler aud office 25.09 The Tuttle Corp., supplies 22.00 E L Adair supplies : - 5.00 Leona Smith clerk hire 1 100,00 J. H. Cockley salary 200.00 The Banner Pub. Co., printing .bh J Herbert Cockley office exp 20.00 E L Adair supplies - 14.00 J Herbert Cockley 6% fees 40.33 J Herbert Cockley, temp office 100,00 Frances G. Kuhn salary 116.66 John Singleton salary 183.33 John Singleton, offiffice exp 1.00 Paul M Huffman salary 233.33 The Tuttle Corp. supplies - 17.09 C V Kilgore salary 200.00 ¢ V Kilgore, mileage 15.60

Harold P, Shew services 14.00 Herald P Shew services 11,10 Herald P Shew services 17.00 W H Hays, M.D,. salary ~ 30.01 Guy Hardenbrook disease prev 22.70 Herna Ettinger health con -150.00 J L Latta, county council 40.00‘ O F Johnstor county council 40.00 S R Cole county council: 40,00 M E Sherman county council 40.00 ‘Walter D Crothers county coun 40.00 ;R A Glase county council 40.00 John Shermerhorn co council 40.00 Anna K. Prickett salary 84.00 Anna K Prickett office exp 22,08 E L Adair supplies ‘ 3.50 T J Mawhorter ppor Elk twp 41.73 Chilcotte & Kitt repairs - 1.00 Michael Hay ct house exp 75.00 Dora May ct house exp -.1.00 Henry Coe ct house exp 75.00 John W Sheris & Son supplies 4.83 Albion Water & Light Dep 74.96 C W Brewster supplies 6.71 J I Holcomb Mfg Co. supplies 18.34 Huntington Laboratories sup 25,00 John W Sherns & Son jail sup 29.61 Catherine Lorg jail sup . 24.00 B W Cole jail sup - 710 Albion W & L Dept., jail sup 15.84 E J Parker jail sup : 96 Drs J W & Woodward Hays 6.00 Dr W F Carver jail sup 10.00 Fred J Janits, co farm repairs 3000.00 'S A Sheples co farm employe 45.00 Mrs. S A Sheples co farm emp 51,79 Drs. JW & Woodward Hays 76.75 Dr -John “H Ravenscroft sup 13.50 Dale Schwab co farm sup 4.75 John W Sherne & Son supplies 13,00 Albion W & L Dept supplies 15.99 Tom Clouse, co farm sup 28.17 Ackerman Merc Co. co farm sup 33.37 W H Hert co farm sup 18.50 Ligonier Ice Co, supplies 60.50 S A Merriman co farm sup 12.10 Albion Roller Mills co farm sup 8.00 C E Bloom co farm sup .20

Oro E Couch co farm sup 1.50 B A Lower co farm sup 50.00 E L Adair publie printing 3.16 C C Palmer co farm sup 16.40 B R Matteson public printing 2.64 Kendallville Pub. Co., public ptg 1.20 B R Matteson public printing 5,61 B R Matteson, public printing - 35.40 B R M@lﬁson public printirg 8.00 E L Adair public printing 80.16 Avilla News public printing 1.46 E L Adair public printing 31.15 R L Adair public printing 3,05 Paul N Hoffman ditch exp 8.50 Paul N Hoffmon ditch exp 10.60 Paul N Hoffman ditch exp 8.00 Paul N Hoffman ditch exp 6.10 Paul N Hoffman ditch exp 12.60 Paul N Heffman ditch exp 13,38 Paul N Hoffman ditch exp 17.00 Calvin Black poor York twp 27.00 Ira Rothenberger burial soldier 75.00 L.ouie Berhalter burial soldier 75.00 George W Brown burial soldier 75.00 B R Matteson sup highway 5.45 Albert Gappinger drayage 2.00 Floy M Evans co ‘agents clerk 41.66 [Paul N Hoffman ditch exp 143.10 ‘lrene Byron Saratorium 745.71 Joe Trowbridge sinspector 84.00 Beard Construction Co rd con 180,11 Paul’ N Hoffman con roads '5.86 Paul N Hoffman stillinger rd 16.70 Paul N. Hoffmar ditch exp 5.70 {Paul N Hoffman Spurgeon rd 88.80 iPaul N Hoffman Barker rd 80.60 Thomas :Weeks imsp road 31.50 Gordon Adair Spurgeon rd 1827,00 Hawk & Weeks Stillinger rd 2016.80 Paul N Hoffman const road 30.60 Beard Const Co., const road 4364.51 iGordon Adair Winbrenner rd 849.62 Eagles & Son Barker rd 61,38 Wm B Burford rd bonds 67.50 Fred Raub&Marion: Shultz sheep 60.00 Fred Deehm sheep killed 85.00 1 IClaude Stout sheep killed 10,00 Joe MecDuffee sheep killed 30.00 William Buttz shee pkilled 46.50 John C Lindsay sheep killed 110.00 Coe Poage shgep killed f&d 50.00 Geo Bohenborger sheep kil 27.00 C C Palmer sheep killed 70,00 Verne Homsher sheep killed 25.00 Bert F Baughman sheep killer 25.00. Reuben Parker sheep killed 82.50, Edward.J Baker chickens killed 12.80° Smith Auto Sales bridge repair. 6.00 The L A Muffler Co bridge re 54,13 Homer Seymoure bridge repair 2.0, Charles Helmer bridge rep 1.00 George Koontz bridge repair .60 M Moore & Co. bridge repair 13,60

Paul N Hoftman bridge sepair 411.45 Bagles - & Son bridge répair 42.08 M L Latta Poad ‘fepair 3149.00 Alec M. Rennie road rep. 170.79 R A Wilkes & Co, rd repair 221.27 Eagles & Sor: road repairs 32.35 'E J Parker road repair 19.75 Kend. Hdw Co. road repair 46.74 The Barrett Co,, road repair 658.41 George L. Wree road repair 15.00 E L Adair road repair 5.00 State Auto Ins Co. road repair 40.50 Noble Motor truck 49.46 Noble Motor Truck Corp rd re 5321 Noble Motor Truck Corp. rd re 38.45 Clinton F Bloom road repair 3.40 C E Bloom road repair .30 Albion W & L Dept road repair 5.02 John W Bherns & Son rd repair 4,20 Paul N Hoffman road repair 12.45 H H Mortorff bridge const 51.30 Philip Holman, bridge const 15.00 Clate Castator co farm emp 45.00 | Abshire Oil Co., road repair 710,55 Seagley Bros road repair 8.50 Chilcote & Kitt road repair 5.40 P C Berger road repair » 2.48 S A Merriman road repair 1.25 Chester Kiester sheep killed 25,00 Royal Leonard Simmons repair 150.00 Mrs. Adda E Strdater Barker rd 150.00 Carl Breeden sur. mis ex 5.48 C E Bloom sur, mis. exp 97 C l\’hles road repair 424.41 Mrs. Lena Haller road rep 282.9¢6 J J Rhodes bridge repair 40.00

Commissioners Record. The Noble county board of commissioners, in session last week awarded contracts in the amount of $7,880 for the purchaseof a new road and large caterpillar tractor, to be used in road maintenance work.. The contract for the scrapper was awarded to the J. D. Adams & Sons Co., of India,na-‘ polis on a bid of $l,BBO. The tractor, costing $6,000, is being purchased I£rom the Good Roads Machinery Co. of Park Plan, Pa. e Other business transacted by the commissioners included only routine matters, Theapplication of Virgil J. Jerrett, Mrs. Grace Renkenberger and Sevilla Hart, all of Wayne townshin, for admittance to Irene Byron sanatorium, were approved. The petition to reclean the Mawhorter ditch, in Elkhart township was approved. A contract was entered into with Henry Coe as janitor at the court house for the ensuing year. The James Stillinger recently constructed gravel road, in Orarge township, was accepted. Ownership of the sewerage system in the court house and county jail was transferred from the county to the town of Albion. ' '

Club House Destroyed. Fire, starting presumably from an overheated fireplace, destroyed the club house of the Kendallville Courtry Club, Inc., in the west part of that city city together with its conitents between 4 and 5 o’clock Friday morning, entailing a loss estimated between §57,000 and $B,OOO. . The loss according to the officers of the club will be only partially covered by insurance. It was stated today that insurance in the amount of $2,500 was carried on the club house and $5OO on the club house contents. Golf bags, clubs and shoes,owned by several members of the club, which had been left in the locked room, were also burned, adding considerably to the loss One member reported a loss of more than $5O in clubs, balls and shoes, Others probably had an equally heavy loss.

| Walb to Resign. ‘ Clyde A. Walb, of LaGrange, will resigny this week as chairman of the republican state organization, according to reports at Indianapolis Thursday among party leaders. He has been thehead of the state committee since Lawrence Lyons, of Brook, resigned about five years after publication of a story that he had become a member of the Ku Klux Klar, under the generalship of D. C, Stephenson, then known as the old man and now serving a life term in the state prison for murder. 3

Wets Incorporate. Articles of incorporation were drawn up Friday for the Anti-Prohi-bition League of America, an organ ization which will seek to repeal the Indiana . Wright bone dry law, to modify the Volstead act so as to permit the use of light wines and beer and to repeal the 18th amendmiert. Headquartersof the league are in Gary and the officers are F. F, Burns, president; Rex Cavannaugh, vicepresident, an dO. Warble, secretary. T—— et Bourbon Man Ends Life, The body of John Melser, 81, who lived alone on his farm near Bourbon, wag found in his home Thursday afternoon by Bert Lozier, a neighbor. The agedman hadbeen shot, apparently by his own hand. Near the body . lay a discharged shotgun. | ‘Melser had been in poor health. The-‘ agedman is survived by a wife, san and daughter living i Fort Wayne.' " Quail Season Opens, The open season for quail began Thursday and continues until Deceniber 20.. BEach hunter is limited to kill 15 and not to exceed 45 .in three consecutive days, Today many nimrods were out in guest of rabbits, quail, as well as dueks. g Samuel- Rowe was a spry host to nineteen friends last Saturday, the event being his eighty-second birthday. Mr. Rowe corded two cords of wood, shaved -himself and walked up town and back in the afterndon of his anniversary.—LaGrange. Standard ¥ T P G—— Now is the time to pay your Banner subscription—BPO IT NOW! .

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Youths Disappear, L ' Louis Fick, 32 son of Michael Fick, iam'mu@ Brudi, 27, son of J. G. Brudj and Lester Byerly, 26, son of Lewis Byerly, and all residing on farms around Arcola, have been missing since Thursday night, and no trace of their whereabouts had been obtained The yourg men who are all employ ed on farms around Arcola, attended a basketball game at that place Thursday nighit and were last seen at 11:30 pm. driving toward the home of Byerley’s parents. The Ford car of Brudi was found at the Byerly home Friday morning but there was no trace of the boys. They evidently left, irs the Chrevolet closed car owned by young Fick,

" Bank Audit Goes On, National Bank Examimer F. F. Utt, who, in the regular order of things, is the temporary receiver of the National Bank of LaGrange, is yet engaged in his audit of the books and other records of the institution whose doors were closed by the board of directors two weeks ago last Monday. Mr. Utt has made rp statement as to what he is finding and will makq none. » . It is his official duty to file a report with the department at Washiington and whatever action follows will be from that source, : | J — . T e Found Dead in Home. Mrs. Louis Weisweber, wife of a well known Whitley county farmer, was fouid dead in her home at 9:45 Friday morning by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. William Weisweber. All the members of the family were in thecorn field Friday mornirg and when the daughter-in-law returned to the home, she discovered her moth er-in-law lying dead on the kitchen floor. : ‘ b Miller at His Store. » Frank Miller his friends will be glad to learn, was able to visit his grocery Saturday for the first time in some weeks, The gentleman is im proving in health. '

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