Ligonier Banner., Volume 62, Number 22B, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 June 1928 — Page 2
The Ligonier Banner Eflablished 1856 Published by THE BANNER PUBLISHING CO. W. C. B. Harrison, Editor M. A. Cotnerman, Manager s Published every Monday and Thursday and entered the Postoffice at Ligonier, Indiana, as second class matter. .
DEMOCRATIC TICKET : ‘ For Governor— . » FANK C. DAILEY 1 [.ieutenant-Governor— ADDISON DRAKE ; Secretary of State— l ARTHUR J. HAMRICK Auditor— . ‘ GEORGE W. SWIGART | Treasurer-— ! JAP JONES | Supt. Jublic Instruction— ‘ JOHN A. LINEBARGER Attorney General— =~ i CURTIS SHAKE Reporter of Supreme Court— MRS. MAY HACK | Judge Supi'exme" Court, Second District— - : THOMAS H. BRANAMAN Judge Appellate Court, First District— _ W. W. CURLL Judge Appellate Court, Second District— ' e GLENN J. CLIFFORD Representative in Congress—- - SAMUEL: D. JACKSON Prosecuting Attorney—- : RALFH W. PROBST State Senator— : CHESTER K. WATSON Stiate Representative—- - WILLIAM H. FAVINGER Clerk Noble Circuit Court— . FRANCES M. BEANE County Treasurer— OWEN A. YOUNG County Sheriff— - _ WILLIAM HOFFMAN (‘cunty Coroner— : : JUSTIN' W. MORR (‘ounty Surveyor—- . HARRY W. MORTORFF Commissioner Middle District-—-FRANK B. HARPER Commissioner Northern District— NOAH F. SMITH Real Estate Deals A deal was made through the Kimmell Realty Company in which Guy Kneeland of Mishawaka exchanges hig city property for an 81 acre farm in LaGrange (County owned by H. C. McDaniel. Mr. Kneeland will takeq charge of the farm and Mr. McDanie} will return to Noblesville where hg formerly lived.
Edd Piggott has purchased ihé Wayne Tyler farm on the Toledo & Chicago Pike through the Kimmel) Realty Compnay. William Swickard has traded his residence property near the Catholig church to Frank Shisler for his 69 acre farm east of Ligonier. Mr. Shisler will move to Ligonier about the first of November and Mr. Swickard wil ltake charge of the farm at that time. The deal was made through the Kimmel Realty Compnay. 3 Prizes For Sports. The following events will take place at 2:00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon on the free Act Platform on Main street. : Pie Eating Contest (Boys and Men) Wirse Priee .0 o 0 300 Sedond Phize oo SIfOQ Nail Driving Contest (Married Womeén dret Prige . o 0 $l.OO Seound Prise . ... .. . &g Shoe Race (Girls Under 18) st Prige . - $l.OO Secomd Prive .. B 0 Money Scramble (Boys 8 to 15) Prize all you can get. ‘The sports will be in charge of Walter Robinson, Edd Smith and Clarence Denning. ' - Murderer Believed in Toils Police of Brazil today believed they had solved the murder of Orvilla Wires whose body was found tied to a tree mnear Bloomington twaq months ago. z
Gene Steele who has been in cus“ tody since last Thursday last night confessed today to a number of crimes which he and Bob Buchanon of Bloom field Ind., participated in. Steel nams ed Buchanon as the man whe murdered Wires. Buchanon refused to comment on Steel’s confessiod. Linn Grove Watchman Shoots - Alfred Raber night watchman .at Linn Grove Monday night shot one of four men seen near the Linn Grove bank which has been robbed twice’ recently. After an exchange of shots the men placed their wounded companion in an automobile and escaped. They Visit- Muncie _’;(lr. and Mrs. Lewis Marker and daughter Marcile are Muncie visitors today. Arrangements are being madé for the young lady to enter the state normal there next term. She will specialize in music and art with a view of teaching these subjects. i Coneessions Are Here Concessions for Independence day are here and. are located on Main street betweem Third and Fourth) The fact that no other Fourth of July celebration is scheduled for any town near Ligonier insures a big erowd foy this city. : 5 ; R T "~ Reeeives Mileh Cows 4 - George D. Foster Tuesday received another car load of fine milch cowy
LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA Russel Longenecker Writes of Ocean Voyage to Will Saek from Sydney New South Wales _Russell Longenecker writing ta Will Sack from Australia tells of hig geean trip and other incidents as fol, lows: ; Dear Bill:— Thought I'd write you a few lineg to let you know that I grrived in Australia safe and sound. Had a very pleasant voyage OvVer, although we did run into some rough seas on two occasions. Two days out from Auckland, New Zealand we run intqg a seventy mile an hour gale, the waves were thirty feet high and I thought sure we would pay a visit tg Davy Jones, but everybody . camq through alright except the Captain of the ship who was blown off the pridge deck to the boat deck below, and as he slid along the deck becamg wedged between a life boat and the deck floor this saved him from goo- - overboard and of course being lost. He came through with only three broken - ribs. The boat made three stops on our way over, Honolulu, Suva Kiji and Auckland and we had plenty of timg at each stop to lock around a bit and see most of the points of interest. Sydney. is quite a nice place, it has a population of one million and a quarter people and surrounds one of the most beautiful harbors in the world. Their hundred and twenty ‘miles of bathing beaches are open the year around, but the water is in‘!'o_9l('(l with man eating sharks which is nof so pleasant. These sharks grow to eighteen feet in length and have a jaw span of thirty inches, and every week or so someone looses an arm, leg or is bitten in half. 1 don't helieve 1 shall indulge in the sport of hathing in these waters. : Australia while a little larger than the States in area has only six million population and® almost a guarter of the total are here in Sydney. Most of the people came from England and still adhere to the English customs, which are almost opposite to ours ig the States. All the traffic on sidewalks, tracks and streets is on thé left hand side, all automobiles of which ninety per cent are American makes are right hand drives. ‘This has been rather awkward for me to cet used to. Although this is an Knglish speaking country all the natives have a nasal twang ‘in their speech and it is very difficult to understand them, but T am getting so I can say righto and cheerio as well as they can.
There are thirty-five hundred Americans in Sydney and of course hold thirty five hundred of the best positions in the town. Have been spending most of time since arrived in and about Sydney as the plant which 1 came over to start up at Port Kembla is not completed, and won't be until about thé Ist off Julv.
This plant represents an investment of twenty-five million dollars so you see it is not small. It is patterned af, ter American design and is very modern in every respect. It is the first of its kind in Australia and none of these fellows know anything about if SO you can see what I am up against,
Have been in the town just a month today and have heard it said several times that the water is not very goog however, I cannot. vouch for thig statement and do not intend to argue the point as long as the beer holds out. May be able to report on this matter in my next letter. /
Hope you are in the best of health give best to my friends about, the town, and tell Bill Milner I’ll write him soon. With kindest regard and best wishes I am as ever Very truly yours, ; R. Longenecker % Hoskins Iron & Steel Co. Wattle St. Sydney !
Take Gasoline and oil From Car. Kenneth Page of rural route No. 2 Hdwardsburg, Mich., went to the Elkhart police station Sunday morning and reported that three girls and a man riding in a Ford roadster had held him up north of Mishawaka angd had drained the gasoline and oil from his car putting it in the roadster.. Page said that the robbery occurred at 8 o’clock Sunday morning and that one of the girls in the party held a gun on him while the man took the gas and oil. He said that he Started in' pursuit and trailed they Ford roadster south of Elkhart thru Jamestown. He reported that the roadster bore Kenton county Kentucky license plates No. 3084 Elkhary officers scoured roads in the vicinity of Elkhart but found no trace of the roadster.
Indiana Pioneer Dies.
John Loucks 92 year sold one of, the oldest residents of Elkhart county died Monday evening at the homg of a daughter, Mrs. William Brubaker two and a half miles north of Wakarusa. Mr. Loucks was the son of Peter and Anna Loucks and was born in Wayne county Ohio September 18 1835. He came to Elkhart county when sixteen years of age anp had lived in this county ever sin\c;e. For many years he had been engaged in the sawmill and lumbey business and later was a farmer. For 35 years he had lived om thé farm where he died.
They’re in again! ! gee Wallace Berry and Raymond Hatton in “Part, ners in Crime” at Crystal next Tues, day Wednesady and Thursday.
THE LIGONIER BANNER, LIGONIER, INDIANA.
Set Training Tables o ~ for Fighting Crickets The sporting element in China has been training fighting crickets for hundreds of years. Huge sums are still bet on cricket fights and the owners of champion crickets are nation, ally known. In his booklet, “Cricket Champions of China,” Dr. Berthold Laufer, famous sinologist of the Field Museum of Natural History, discloses the interesting methods used by the Chinese in training these scrapping insects. Even in ancient times the trainers prescribed strict diets for the.r battlers. The usual diet consist of a dish of rice mixed with fresh cucumbers, boiled chestnuts, lotus seeds and mosquitoes. Some of the owners and fanciers allow themselves to be bitten my mosquitoes. and when the mosquitoes are full of blood they are given to their favorite crickets. The fighting crickets are kept in specially devised jars. which are made to serve as both summer and winter homes. The jars are furnished with tiny beds and water jars. The champion erickets are transported in fingly wrought cages, some of which are filigree gold.-—Pathfinder Magazine. ;
Now Cast Doubt on Myles Standish Tale ~ Capt. Mpyles Standish may have asked John Alden to propose to Priscilla Mullens for him, as Longfellow wrote (there is historical doubt on the point), but despite the means he may have taken the redoubtable soldier was married twice and left many children. ; Proof of this has been found through twenty-one years’ record searching by Dr. Myles Standish of Boston, eighth lineal descendant of the soldier. _ “The legend about which Longfel‘low wrote ‘The Courtship of Miies . Standisl’ is not very convineing,” suid Doctor Standish. “Before coming to . America, Captain Standish was In “Holland and there he married his first wife, Rose. Rose died the first winrter in America. Later the soldier married Barbara, who is said to have bee‘x a first cousin of Rose. They had several children. It is between the death of Rose and his marriage to Barbara that the captain is supposed .to huave courted Priscilla. It is u ‘pretty story.”—Miami Daily News.
Brotherly Love
. A large crowd was waiting breathlessly on the beach. In the distance a ~small black object could be seen bob'bing up and down on the crest of the ‘waves. It was a bottle—and inside ‘was a message! A party of brave men ventured out in a row boat to see what tragic news ‘it contained. After some difliculty the ibottle was picked up and brought ‘back te shore. With' shaking fingers the leader of the party pulled out the .message. : “The finder of this bottle,” he read, “might please send it to my brother ‘in Aberdeen and tell him to take it ‘to the Pig and Whistle. There s two- . pénce on it.”—London Answers.
Too Much Pep
Norma, age seven, was visiting her grandma, and they were telling jokes. ‘Grandma told Norma the one about the boy who went to the grocery and bought some pepper for his mother, .and when he,arrived home and opened 'the package he found the pepper was ‘half peas (p 8 : Norma was quiet for a few mo‘ments, and then she said: “Grandma, here is ome for you: - “A little boy went to the store to ‘buy some pepper. for his mother, and when he came home and opened it "he found it was half pep.”
Appropriately Named
. Little Rock, Ark., was named from a rocky promentory which rises on the south bank of the Arkamsas river some 50 feet above the river and now used as one of the abutments of one of the four bridges which span the river. This rock is the first seen as cending the river, and was called “Little Rock” in cpntradistinction to the bold precipice about ten times higher which rises some three miles above upon the opposite bank and is called “Big Rock.” This is now the site of an army post. .
Movie Star
Five-year-old Etßel had never attended a picture show, but had heard her brothers and sisters talk a.great deal about the “movie stars.” One evening Ethel was out riding with her parents after dark. It was a new experience to Ethel to be out driving late enough to see the stars, and she was very much interested in 'watching them. One bright star in particular attracted her attemtion, and as the machine moved Ethel thought the star was moving and said, “Mamma, that must be a movie star.” ¥
One Thing Missing Mrs. Newlywed rushed in from the kitchen, a smoking pie dish in her hands. She placed it on the table in front of her husband. ‘“There, dear,” she cooed, *“‘that’s .a cottage pie.” , - “P'd have known, it was cottage pie;” he remarked after the: first few mouthfuls. - : “You would?”’ she asked. deélighted. “Yes,” he replied. “I can raste the thatched roof and the cruzy paving. ‘But what did you do with the hricks?" ; Law Office Hours Our office hours from June 1 to September 1 will be from 9 a. m. to 4. P . M. Saturdays 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. except that Thursdalys will close at noon. i : W. H. Wigton ' ’ Bothwell & Vanderford
Tourists In East Michigan -~ Find Indian Shrine On Sacred Ocgqueoc River Appealing Mecca
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Today modern concrete bridges span the crossings of the Ocqueoc River in East Michigan between Rogers City and Cheboygan and all summer long and late into the fail a continuous, unbroken stream of tourists follows unheeding an old Indian trail because it is now called U. S. Highway 23 and the old path traversed centuries ago by the Indians has become a smooth-surfaced travel artery that beckons the tourist on and on to sapphire lakes, green forests and sparkling waters. Those making up the caravans of nomad motorists which come f{rom the parched zones to the south, seeking health and happiness wot not of another pilgrimage that annually, decades ago, left the main trail at this point and wound sombrely and seriously down to the shores of the Ocqueoc. In those almost forgotten days there was no smooth, vibrationless roadbed, no hum of contented motors. Tall pines towered above the trail and the river. The soughing of gentle breezes purring through -the trees, the occasional soft splash of the paddle of a birch bark cance and the operas of hundreds of varieties of birds only disturbed the tomb-like gilence,
Aged and Infirm Take Last Journey The caravan of today that crosses the Ocqueoc is a rushing cavalcade of modern adventurers. The Indian caravan of that “eternal landscape of the past” was a sluggish, slow-mov-ing one, solemnly creeping along its path through the forest, with young men at the head and the lame, the halt and the palsied lagging behind. ~ The Ocqueoc River was the Sacred Water of the Chippewa Indians, that stream down which the aged, the decrepit, the blind and the superannuated of the tribe took their last journey —to Sundown Land. The choice was voluntary and the journey .a tribal custom. Those who embarked upcn it came willingly—without complaint or lament—to the shores of the river, as cheerfully and blithely almost as the stalwart young men and comely maidens of the tribe. They came in “the silvery livery of advanced age” for the most part, “to vanish in the chinks that Time had made” L : ’
Feasting Precedes Great Adventure. Annually, when the brush of the Great Spirit had painted the forest with the glorious colors of the Indian summer and the birds were gathering for their fall flight, the Chippewas held their bivouac on.the shore of the Ocqueoc. The enlire tribe attended: The feasting, one of the principal features of the gathering, was climaxed by preparations for the departure of those scheduled to cross the Stygian ferry upon the. Great Adventure.
The list of those who were to make the water journey included all those
/ Ten Lives Week End Toll . Violence took a 'toll of ten lives in Indiana over the week-end. Most of the deaths Jresulted from automobile accidents. Four persons were killed at a cross ing four miles east of Muncie when an auto was struck by a Union Traction company work car. The dead are Mrs. Carl Simmond, 44; her son, Edward 12, Selma; John Pittinger 13, Muncie and Mrs. Isaac Walker, Selma.
Mrs. Emma Richardson of Bedford was killed when .struck by an automobile driven by Miss Agnes Hunt, Mitchell. 2 : Charles E. Herrold 55 South Bend was killed when the automobile he was driving collided with one driven by Miss Doris Agnes 23 Royal (enter.
Blanche Miller 2 suffered fatal injuries” at Covington when she ran in the path of an automobile while running from a dog that had frightened her. ’ . » -
Mrs. Martha Richards 36 Addyston 0., was killed on a highway west of Terre Haute, when struck by an auto driven by Stephen €. Hughes Terre Haute. ;
Samuel Collins 57 Huntingburg, was killed when struck by a Southern passenger train while walking on the track. : ' - Frank Terrell 50 farmer near Logansport was killed when a train struck his automobhile. ‘
See “The Rough Riders”’ at Crystal tonight. ‘
who were of no further use to the tribé. The young brave, left a helpless cripple from his encounter with the wounded bull elk; the aged chieftain whose inept hand ecould no longer shape the spearhead of flint; the elderly warrior whose withered arm could no longer draw back the string of his bow; the debilitated mother of warriors whose decrepit figure the medicine man’s potions and incantations could not revitalize; these all were rcpresented and candidates. for the voluntary excursion down the swift current of the ‘“Sainted River.” . All the helpless ones, regardless of age, ancestry and valor, were on. the list. ’Twas thus that the tribe was kept a nation of strong brave men and women. :
Chieis and Leaders Have Precedence. Legend. says that the ceremonial and mode of departure were sim--Ile, in keeping with the Spartanlike tragitions of the race. Decked in their beads -and feathers, they austerely stepped into the river, waded out into the mid-stream, reclined as in a cradle, and let the swift water carry them away on itsbosom. The journey to Gitchie Manitou’s Happy Hunting Ground was short, for the Ocqueoc does not: loiter on its way. Pleasant it was, too, according to tribal records, ' becaugse one passed as though in a. dream. Chiefs and tribal deaders had precedence, and then came the women and children. The trip was begun to the mournful chant of the tribe and woodland choirs joined in the requiems. The swift-moving expedition was carried along the river into Hammond’s Bay and thence: to Lake Huron. B S Early Settiers Saw Last Pilgrimage. When the white men came into the region, the remnant of the iribe, perIraps resentful of the presence of unsympathetic prying eyes abandoned the ancient rite. Early settlers saw ithe last pilgrimage to the Sacred Water. They have told how the Indians came, ‘strung out in long procession, the sick and infifm sometimes three and four days behind the main body, t_ottering‘ on, making frequent stops, spending the last re serves of their failing strength to reach the rendezvous with the Master of Lifé. Death on the way, they believed, would rob the victims of a special blessing and they exerted themselves to reach the last river. The Ocqueoc River is located near the tip of the eastern side of the lower peninsula of Michigan. Motorists, rushing over the bridge on U. S. 23 note casually a pretty stream. Descendants of the Chippewas, how-. ever, t& whom has been handed down thé story of the Sacred River, as they eross the river glance reverently at the waters and perhaps imagine they see ghostly reflections of figures of their ancestors. 5
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