Ligonier Banner., Volume 62, Number 18B, Ligonier, Noble County, 31 May 1928 — Page 2

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Assembly Plint in Kansas City. Marking the latest step in a movement to keep pace with the growing demand for its product the Chevrolet Motor Company announced that construction will start shortly on a mammoth Chevrolet assembly plant in Kansas City. This follows elosely on the opening of a smilar plant in Atlanta to serve the southeast.

When completed in October; the Kansas City plant will be the largest automobile factory in the southwest and will represent an investment of more than $2,250,000. Like the . Atlanta plant, the Kansas City factory will have a capacity of 350 cars a day providing Chevrolet with facilities for the producticn of more than 1,250,000 cars annually. The new factory will serve Western Missouri, Kansas North and South Dakota Wyoming and Colorado. =<

W. S. Knudsen president of the Chevrolet Motor Company declared today that the opening of a 2 plant in Kansas City has been made necessary to relieve the St. Louis and Janesville factories, where the demand has been taxing production facilities and malking it necessary for both plants to work overtime for the last [three months., It is a further step in the company’s program to insure -a regular flow of cars in line with the exceptional public demand he said. Twenty eight acres in the Leeds district have been taken over for the various buildings which will include the main Chevrolet-Fisher, assembly unit, an office building, parts and service building, driveway shed, lcading dock and power house. With the exception of the office building the units will all be of one story, menitor tvpe roof construction, allowing for the maximum amount of light for workmen, Nearly one half of the huge Che vrolet-Fisher assembly unit will be occupied b ythe Fisher Body Corporatior for the building of bodies for al) Chevrolet closed cars. This close as sociation of the world’s largest anc foremost automobile Body builder wil enable Chevrolet to provide the samu type of service available in othe: Chevrolet assembly plants throughoui the country. Buildings will have g total of 410,000 sq. ft. of floor space.

Stork Almo®t Wins Race

The stork almost won a race ove: two automobiles Sunday due primar ily to a punctured tire on one of the machines. A physicianr was taking Mrs. Carroll Holcomb from her honic in Kendallville to Lakeside hospita! KEnroute a tire on his automobile wen: flat. Hailing a passing motorist, Mrs Holcomb was iransferred to the othe:

machine and rushed to the hospital Ten minutes later she became the mo ther of a baby daughter who is now keeping company with five baby boys in the nursery. Both Mrs. Holcomk and haby are doing nicely. :

Cidnnot Rule On Utility Rate.

The act of the 1927 Indiana legislature giving courts authority to tix public utilities rates in certain cases is unconstitutional according to a ruling of Judge Brenton A. Devol in Clinton circuit court at Frakfort. The ruling was given in the case of the

business men’s association of Kirklir which united with citizens of the towr in appealing from a rate decision of the public utilities commission giving an increase to the United Telephone company. The decision was the first adverse one since the law was passed.

Eva Osborne to Become Bride

The home of rM. and Mrs. O. O. Osborne at Brimfield was the scene of pleasant pre-nuptial shower given by Mrs. Leo Fischbach and Mrs. Elmer Ridenback in honor of Miss Eva Osborne whose marriage to Herbert Schlichtenmyer is announced to occur on June 3. - One or the features of the social hour was the submitting of answers to the subject “How to Manage a Husband.” The opinion of the majority was to ‘“to feed him well” Miss Osborne received many useful gifts including a large number of cooking utensils.

Gypsy OrcheStra at Wawasee

George Stcherban and his Perirushka Club Gypsy orchestra direct from their Chicago engagement will be featured during the summer at-the Wawasee hotel Lake Wawasee which opened its season Memorial day. This orchestra will add much to the colorof Wawasee hotel as a special and sports rendezvous.

Bandits Rob Doector.

Dr. C. A. Walton was robbed by two ‘bandits as he drove his automobile into the garage at his home in :Anderson. They forced him to drive them to the edge of the city and then took possession of the car. The doctor came back to the city on a freigh! train. The bandits said taey wonld abandon the car in Indianapolis. . Attend Graduation Mr. and Mrs, Arthur E. Kelley daughter Margaret and scn James the latter a student at Wabash college will be present Monday at the graduation exercises at Western College. Oxford, Ohio when Miss Helen Kelley is a member of the graduating class. Now is the time to pay your Banner

TS TR N TRy - e g Fcch Brains to Find ‘r ' “~Namtes for Animuals . Giving pames to the thousands of animals newly discovered each year is a problem with which scientists are_confronted. An international commission on zoological nomenclature has since 1895 been engaged in the gigantic task of working out the rules for assigning to each sort of protozoa, worms, echinoderms,. mollusks and vertebrates its proper designation. : With elose analogy to the rules for priority of patents on man-made inventions. and trade-mark registrations the scientist who first recogn&zos and, describes a new zoological zenus or species by publication huas the right to give it at time of its publication its technical Latin name by which it will be known for all time. The commission has decreed that beginning in 1931 the scientisti must not only name the new genus or species, but also state its characters that distinguish it from «¢thers with which it might be confused. It is estimated that more tham half a million different cenera and species have been named sinee Linnaeus in the early Seventeenth century crrated the beginnings of systematic zoology and zoologists believe it probable that there are still several million additional that will be differentiated and named in the future.

Two Causes Found to Predispose to Death For some time conclusions have been drawn regarding the times of day when most births and deaths occur. The question was studied in different countriés and the resuits indicated that conditions differed with environment. No biological law was found to exist.

The inquiry has been carried on in various hospitals for a year past. toyrly statistics of births at La Pitie hospital. kept under Professor Jeanuin, show that evéry month the number of births is gréater between midnight and noon than between noon and the following midnight. As for deaths, they are more frequent during the period of sleep, from six o'clock at night to six o’clock in the morning, than during waking hours. In a single year 113 patients died in the niglit and only SS in the daytime, 5 g Besides, of these 113 deaths 59 ocecurred between six o'clock and midnight, in- the early part of the sleeping period. There is thus a cosmic influence of night on births and deaths and perhaps sleep 2lso does its part. These two ecauses, by increasing the excitability of the pneumogastric nerve, work together to predispose to death.—lLa Science Moderne. Paris,

The Short-Lived Pin

By a series of experiments conducted on hi» estate a French investigator has discovered that pins go the way of all flesh and are dissolved into dust. Hairpins. which the experimenter watched for 154 days, disappeared at the end of that time, having been resolved into a ferrous oxide, a browgish ruosi, which was blown awav by the wind. -

Bright fins took nearly 1S months to disappear, polished steel needles nearly two and a half years, brass pins had but little endurance; steel pens at the end of 15 months had nearly gone, while their wooden holders were still intact. Y

Pencils, with which he also experimented, suffered little by exposure; the lead was unharmed and the cedar almost as good as new. :

Sympathetic Under{tanding

A young American mother went to stay with Mr. and Mrs. Rudyard Kipting “in . England. Necessity had forced her to leave in America her two little givls, from whom she had never been parted before. Upon arrival at the Kipling home, much worried at not having heard from the children, she was handed a cable saying they were well., Relieved tears arose in her eyes, G. B. Burgin relates in “More Memoirs and Some Travels.” Kipling saw them and said to hi® wife:

“Take Mrs. — up to the nursery and show her the children. What she wants- is baby talk.”

Modern Business

The business of the two Dbrothers was distinetly bad, and had been for some time, so they decided to hold a board meeting of their own. : “George,” said the elder brother, “i expect you've noticed that things are pretty bad lately?” : : : “YesF I have,” answered the cther. “We'll go bust unless we have a—well, a burglary.” .

“Burglary !” echoed the elder. *“Why not the old-fashioned but simple fire?” “No, no,” said George. “Burglary’s best, because if the insurance peopls refuse to pay up we don’t lose anything !”"—Wallace’s Farmer.

Rainy-Day Railway

Only when rain is falling do freight txgens puff from Mount Jewell to Smweethport, Pa., over a 20-mile railroad that runs through dense woods. Some time ago it was founc that the locomotive sparks caused frequent forest fires; and a notice in the passenger schedule said, “These trains will operate only on rainy days.” Later a gasoline locomotive restored passenger service. Freight trains, however, require steam locomotives. to haul their heavy weight; so freight is shipped on rainy days only.—Popular Science Monthly.

: Mabie Resigns. Bert O. Mabie deputy fish and game warden has resigned and on June 1 will accept a position as officer for the Wawasee Protective association, Lake Wawasee. , ~ Now is the time to pay your Banner subscription—DO IT NOW! :

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Almanac Traced to In the early days of Greece it was customary to announce the first day ot tPe month either through a berald or placards pasted on the city walls. These placards were known as kalends, or kolendae from the Greek, *I call or proclaim,” The book of accounts referring to the days of the year was known as a calendariumj hence the word culendar. Excavators at Pompeil nave discovered a square block of marhle that Berved the Greeks as a calendar. Each side served as a record of three months. Each month was headed by the. proper sign of the zodiac, and contained astronomical, agricultural and religious information. Verstegan, early lexicographer, tracing the origin of the word almanac, says: “Our ancient Saxon ancestors used to engrave on certain squared sticks about a foot in tength, sometimes more, sometimes less, the courses of the moones of the whole yeare, whereby they alwaies certainly tell whatt new moones, full moones and changes should happen, as aiso their festival dates; and such a carved stick they called al-mon-aght; that is to say, al-mon-heed, to wit, the regard or observation of all the moones, and Lience is derived the name almanae,”— Detroit News.

Are Stevenson’s Books to Stand Time’s Test?

The bishop of Durham in his oration at the Stevenson commemoration dinner indirectly raised the question whether physical disabilities are a handicap to individual distinction in life. His observations suggest that weakpess in one. sense may be the path to greatness in another. Robert Louis Stevenson was an only son and a chronic invalid. His physical weakness, like Scott’s lameness and Byron's club foot, the bishop remarked, tended te induce in him an almost morbid cult of virility. The bishop wound up his address with a question to which Stevenson enthusiasts of the present day would admit of but one answer. When his books had to stand nakedly on their merits would they be able to hoid their own against the rival claims of new works armed with all the subtle appeal of direct reievance to the time present? When we think of the furore over the Waverly novels for long after they were publiched and of the apathy regarding Scott in the present generation, no one can answer the bishop’s question dogmatically.—Weekly Scotsman.

Bad but Usable

Verlaine, the French poet, once soid a sonnet to Gil Blas Illustre. He took a cab to the offices of the paper to collect the money. It was one cent a line. Sixtecen cents. Not that there are sixteen lines in a sonnet in Paris, but that the title and signature were paid for. . On another occasion he sold a poem to Art et Critique for 5 francs, money down. Next, day he returned to the editor and complained that he had been given a bad five-franc piece. The editor instantly gave him a fresh one, and then discreetly demanded the bad coin. . “Mousieur,” =aid Verlaine, departing, “I have passed it; but I assure you I had considerable difficulty in doing so 0.”

Counted Out

Jacqueline Spencer, was told by her old-fashioned grandiather, who onee followed the sea, that she must walk to school herself every morning on her two legs and must rely on nebody else—that to bank on being offered a lift in the wmotors of neighbors and acquuintances was a cheap and unbecoming policy for n Spencer. “Rely on nobedy else,” finished the old man, an expert at weekday preaching. ; “l can rely on two people,” quoth Jacqueline, ; “Who?”

“On God and myself.” “What about your parents?’ asked he, fishing. “Oh, they're ‘else’”

Schools in Old Prisons

Schoel iz being held in old Spanish' fortresses as the first step. in Americanization processes being carried on by the United States in Porto Rico. Cells where once prisoners paced to and fro ncw contain desks. Many of the classes are conducted behind barred windows and heavily grated doors, installed more than 400 years ago, and the somber walls are decorated with modern blackboards. American officers are learning to speak Spanish and Perto Rieans, who are also enrolled in the Sixty-fifth infantry regiment at San Juan are learning the English language. The schools are maintained in El Morro and San Cristobal fortresses.

The Lorgneite Juggler

This concerns a dancer whose talente arve recognized in the two-a-day and musical comedies. After making a hit in a show she suddenly went ritzy and affected tall millinery. Her intimates gave her up, not being able to tolerate her poses and speech affections while knowing that she was illiterate. At any rate, they say that her maid at the theater asked her:

“Have you any idea where the pins are?” J

“l regret very much,” said the upstage oue, “but I do not know where the pins is.”—New York Graphie.

Nearby Deaths

LG R Saul 67 dropped dead at his home in Wells county of heart trouifle; Isaac Jacobs 75 Wells county farmer; M. . Reinking 78 pneumonia, Decatur. : | Pay your Barner subscriptions. subscription—DO IT NOW!

NaSolecn’s Tast Not : . Finizhed Until 1918 - When the great cathedral of Notre Duame was alight with 10,000 softly waving candle flames and while a pope, brought from Rome to Paris, was preparing, in the presence of the most august assemblage that Europe could gather, to place an emperor's crown on Napoleon's head, Napoleon turned and whispered to his brother, “What would father say if he could see me now?’ And the next moment, when the pepe was ready to crown him, Napoleon firmly removed the emblem from the papal hands and placed the erown upon his own brow. Kings and emperors are not born; you can make as great a king by artificial processes, provided you've got ‘a brain under the crown, says ‘W. G Shepherd, in the Mentor. Born kings ~make trouble; made kings are just as good as born kings; probably better. That’s what Napoleon kept arguing and tryiag to prove all his life. This contention made the born kings angry. The anger drove them together. They finally whippad Napoleon and sent him to St. liclena. He couldn’t whip the born kings. He tried that 100 years too soon. The world didn’t whip the divine-right born kings until 1918, 1 wonder if Napoleon knows that we polished off the job he tried to do.

Metals Made Use of as Writing Materials The earliest legible handwriting on paper in existence is o letter from the wife of a government official, complaining that her susband “is wrecking his career by dissipation.” This letter dates back 1,500 years. Metals were used frequently in place of paper as writing material in early times. The ruler of Kandi once sent an embassy to the Dutch governor of Pulicat. The embassy took along credentials -inscribed on a plate of gold. It is on record that a book at Rome was made of marble cut so finely that the leaves could be turned over. Another book bought in the same city was four inches long, three inches broad, and the pages were all lead. The pages of some of the books used in the Middle 'ages also were made of lead. The laws of Greece were insceribed on brass and those of Rome on slabs of brass, ivory and wood. The state, records of the ancient Tonians were written on shcep and goat skins. The .first archives of France were engraved on silver plates.—London Tit-Bits.

Women Rule and Serve

Explorers have found a tribe of half civilized natives in the wilds of the- Asiatic Caucasian: mountains called “maiden people” by neighboring tribes because they are ruled by women. The women of the tribe appear to have carried feminism beyond the dreams of the civilized modern woman, but not to the disadvantage of the men, for the women do all the work and the woman who provides the most luxuries for her hushand and sons is most respected. All the men have to do is to eat the food set before them, sleep, fish and smoke stone-bowled pipes which their women fill and -light for them.—Capper’'s Weekly.

Banana a Bread

Bananas cannot truthfully be compared with other fruits, for while they grow on trees. they are really a bread fruit, having muck the same prop erties and doing practically the same work in the body as the wheat that is in bread. Zapanas are parricularly efTective. as a winrer fruit because they supply an cifective source of heat. What is in a banana besides delicious {laver? ’f‘rotoin, fats and mineral matter and a large proportion of ecarbohydrates—the food element which creates erergy, both muscular and mental.—The New Age Illus trated. ; . .

Bulgarian Songs

The most strikisg part of the Bulgarian folk song is ‘the tune. deseribed as wild awd mournful, in a scale neither pure minor nor major, but partaking of both. lts time is strange and irrecular measures much more * frequent than in western Europe.” As is often the way among peasant singers, the songs are pitched high, and somatinies a refrain is broken by shrill eries! there is no vodelling. The meledies are short and the repetitions many. :

Masterpiece|

The great urtist paused: brush and palette poised in the air. ‘A masterpiece!” he exclaimed. : “But, I don’t like it one bit,” said the beautiful coed. “I'd be ashamed for any of my friends to see it. You'll Jjust have to do it over.”

This was the last straw. The old master became enraged. Ile threw his paints to the floor and shouted: “Leave my studio, young lady! I'll never - paint another slicker for you as long as I live!” ‘

Supplies of Cochineal

Since aniline dyes now serve the purpose for which cochineal was once required, its cultivation has dwindled to the supply suflicient for the world's culinary requirements. There is only one place where bhoth the plant and the cochineal bug ave cultivated at ail extensively, and that is in the Izabel Lake district of Guatemala, which is the home of the cactus, knoewn locally as the nopal, and the coccus caeti, or cochineal bug, that feeds upon the nopal and provides thz dye.

Dies of Burns Suffered in Fire.

~ W. G. Rogers living near Laurel died of burns suffered when fire destroyed hi shome after an explosion of coal oil. Despite his injuries Rogers awakened his daughter and grand daughter sleeping on the second floor of the house before the flames reached them.

i Oakland Netvs “We've heard of the neighborhood grocer, the ngighborhood tailor, and now we are beginning to head some ' sales promotion work in behalf ¢of the | neighborhood garage,” says Mr. R. A. Armstrong Service Manager of the Oakland Motor Car Company. : L ;n the extension of field service,! ‘motor car manufacturers _have,: through their dealers appointed a number of reliable garages as authorized factory service stations. These authorized garages receive the the technical service data supplied by the car manufacturer and are required to have a representative in attendance at the periodic Service iClinics held by the factory, that they may always be informed on the latest repair methods and be familiar with the adjustment and “maintenance of any new design. Among the strict requirements is the use of only standard factory repair parts. - Many car owners will find oné of these authorized factory service stations or. an authorized dealer’s service station in”their immediate community where they may enjoy the advantages of neighborhopd trading.

Pick Muncie Man for Governor | Clarence E. Bond of Muncie was' nominated for governor by the socialist party in its convention. P. K. Rein bold of Terre Haute was nominated for United States senator. . The convention adopted resolutions condemning the “imperialism despo-' tic rule and militarism” of Lnited States’ intervention in Nicaragua and urging shorter working hours. The| platform adopted by the convention ; declared ‘“public resources are being plundered” and ‘“farmers are befing‘ victimized.” i wnamaa 2 Schools Given Large Sums. i DePauw University was given 325,-3 000 and Eariham College $15,000 in the will of John T. Peal 71 late Un-! ion county farmer . The bequests are i not to be paid until the death of his: widow. Five years ago the couble’ gave $50,000 to DelPauw. .

Ye f Servi Expenditure of few dollars may enable you to get thousands of miles from your old car | THE Model T Ford is still a great car. It led the motor industry for twenty years and it is used today by more people than any other automobile. More than eight million Modet | ' T Fords are in active service in city, town and country, and many of them can be driven for two, three and five years and ~ even longer at very small up-keep expense. - - The cost of Model T parts and of necessary labor is ' unusually low because of established Ford policies. | New fenders, for insmnce, cost from $3.50 to $5 each, with a labor charge of $1 to $2.50. Tuning up the motor - and replacing commutator case, brush and vibrator points costs only $l, with a small charge for material. Brake shoes can be installed and emergency brakes equalized for a ‘lagr charge of only $1.25. A labor charge of $4 to 35 will cover the overhauling of the front axle, rebushing springs and spring perches, and straightening, aligning and adjusting wheels. The labor charge for overbauling the average rear axle runs from $5.75 to §7. Grinding valves and cleaning carbon can be done for $3 to §4. - e - A set of four new pistons costs only $7. For a labor charge i of $2O to $25 you can have your motor and transmission conqalefidy overhauled. Parts are extra. ' All of these prices are approximate, of course, because the cost of materials needed will depend on the condition of each car. They show, however, the low cost of putting the Model - T Ford in shape for thousands of miles of additional service. . See the nearest Ford dealer, therefore, and have’ him ~\ estimate on the cost of re-conditioning your Model T Ford. ~_ He will tell you, in advance, exactly how much the complete FORD MOTOR COMPANY

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