Ligonier Banner., Volume 62, Number 24A, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 July 1928 — Page 1
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CIVIC BODY TO MEET FRIDAY EVENING JULY 18TH 'AT SARGENTS WAWASEE Members Will Take Wives and Other Guests For the Supper Desplte Unlucky Date
Members of the Ligonier Chamber of Commerce are not superstitious. This is illustrated by the number who have registered to take their wives and other guests to the supper booked for Sargents at Wawasee Friday evening July 13. Secretary Keehn of the Chamber expects to register at least forty people for the chicken supper. The meeting at Sargent’s is one of several to be held at lake resorts during the summer on the suggestion of Fre d E. Weir backed by C. R. Stansbury.
‘The object is to form the acquaintances of cottager and secure their trade for Ligonier stores. Road signs have been secured in the shape of an aryow pointing towards this city and these are being posted on highways leading to Ligonier, those at Wawasee indicating the dis‘tance. Ligonier business men are out to get the trade of cottagers at the resorts and this city. . Uses Hands to Stop Flames Mrs. R. E. Roderick of 628 Wolf avenue Elkhart suffered burns to her right hand in extinguishing a blaze in the clothing of her niece - Dorothy Jane 3-vear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Myers 629 Wolf avenuq Thursday evening. - The child escaped with slight burns on her side. The fire was started by a sparkler she was firing left over from the Fourth. Mrs. Roderick had just handed the sparkler to the child when she heard her scream and saw flanies shooting around the child’s face. She extinguished the blaze with her bare hands. :
Perch Placed In State Waters
More. than ten million perch have been sent out by the state conservation department this year for restock ing of Indiana waters according to George N. Mannfield superintendent of the fish and game division of the department Distribution of = black bass has begun and Manfeld predicted that this specie would be unusually plentiful this season as excellent suiccess has attended hatching of the fish in the state’s five hatcheries. More than 1,400 applications for stock fish were received by the department this year. Distribution will continue - until October 7 Mannfeld said.
Boy Badly Injujred In Fall
Edwin Stack 15 son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Stack of Elkhart suffered painful injujries when he fell from a window of his home onto a large seythe which was in the yard. The poy’s left knee struck the blade. The knee cap was severed to the bone and the knee joint laid open. The boy had been standing on his knees in the window reaching up attempting to feed baby robins in a nest just above the first floor window when he fell.
Presbyterian Chureh Notes.
The sermon topic yesterday mornfng was “The Anvil of Religion” the text was Isaiah 41:7. The solo by Miss Bernice Rager was greatly enjoyed and received many compliments.
Mr. Schwan who spoke here June 17 writes us all to attend a Sacred Concert to be given in Oakwood Park Thursday evening July 12 by the Trinity English Lutheran Choir of Fort Wayae.
Severs Artery in Wrist
Mrs. F. M. Roll who resides near Big lake sustained deep cuts in her right arm when a pane of glass which was partly broken shattered-as she was raising a window. Her arm was cut at the wrist and an artery and several tendons severed. She lost an enormous amount of blood and was greatly weakened.
Child Di¢s From Auto Injuries
Wabash county’s Fourth of July death toll was brought up to two Thursday when Mary Ellen 5§ year olq daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Giltner died from injujries received when she was struck Wednesday by a hit-and-run driver. .
Illinois Picnie
The annual picnic of the Illinois society of Indiana will be held at the tourist camp in this city Sunday July 15th.
Miss Flick Recognized Miss Beatrix Flick of Ligonier has been appointed to a principalship in the Mishawaka schools.’
THE LIGONIER BANNER
LIGONIER.NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA. MONDAY., JULY 9 1928
MEMBERS RECE,WE ALIOTMENT Indiana Farmers Received ‘61565,000 in Cpsh From Wheat Growers Association
Indiana farmers received $565,000 in cash last week from the Central States Soft Wheat Growers’ Association affiliated with the offices of the Indiana Farm Bureau Indianapolis. Growers in eastérn Illinois and western Ohio shared in the distribution. It was the occasion of the third and final pool payment amounting to 20c to 35¢ per bushel according to local freight rates of each respective member. There are 14,000 members of the Wheat Pool located mostly in Indiang and they delivered nearly 2,250,000 bushels to over 900 pool elevators for storage last threshing season. :
SIGN FARM RELIEF PAPER
Circulation of Petition Was Sponsored by Social and Eduecational De- , partments
A total of 70,000 names appear on petitions received at the Indiana Farm Bureau offices during the past week or so pledging the signers to support only such candidates for president and congress at the fall election who favor farm relief legislation that will handle thec rop surpluses of this coun try without government subsidy. The Farm Bureau delegation at Houston exhibited the petitions at the Democratic National convention in the hope of proving to the resolution committee that Indiana farmers are in earnest ‘about the agricultural question. .
Death of MrS. Riehmond.
"Mrs. Melvin Richmond aged 62 yvears died Sunday at the home of her daughter Mrs. Clem Faudnaugh in Kimmell. Mrs. Richmond was a highly respected citizen of her community having lived in that vicinity her entire life. She is survived by her husband Melvin Richmond and five children, Mrs. Clem Fausnaugh, of Kimmell, Mrs. Berlin Pressler' and Mrs. Don Favinger of Albion, Mrs. Gilbert Russell of Flint, Michigan and Melvin ‘Surfus of Wolf Lake. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o’clock at thd M. E. church in Wolf Lake. Burial will be made in the Wolf Lake cemetery. ; ;
Highway Bandit Is Caught
The man who held up and robbed F. H. Breidenbach of Fort Wayne near Goshen last Tuesday morning was arrested and is being held at Lapeer Mich., the sheriff’s office was notified by authorities at Fort ‘Wayne. Fort Wayne officers were notified when the man was arrested with the Dodge car |Jbearing Breidenbach’s name. : "The robber was a hiker picked up near Churubusco and gfi'en a ride.
Age Limit is Changed
In a recent order from President Coolidge the age limit of the second i,and third class postmasters was changed from sixty five to sixty eight, years according to the report from the icivil service ¢ igsion. This change ‘has been reco ed by Postmaster iGeneral New.% e
Second in Family.
Miss Bessie daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Bailey was taken to the Methodist hospital in Fort Wayne Saturday evening for an appendicitis operation. This is the second Bailey child to be operated on in less than three weeks a son Wilbur being the first. Both are getting along well.
Oddfellow Smoker
Excelsior Lodge I. 0. O. F. will in stall officers for the ensuing term oI Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. Matters of interest will be talkec over and light refreshments an smoked will follow. Every oddfellow invited to be pre sent.
Robinson Fired
Governor Ed Jackson asked for and received the resignation of Fred B. Robinson who testified against him in the bribery consgpiracy trial recently from the board of trustees of the state tuberculosis sanitorium near Rockville it was learned,
Town Guardian Quits
G. G. Green Albion town marshal for many years tendered his resignation to the town council and on Monday evening in regular session the council appointed Isaac Huff as good samaritan to fill the avancy.
Maurice Hess IIIL
Maurice Hess of the E. Jacobs & Co. store was ill all last night suffering from a bad cold and fever. He is at the store today however but unable to write his usual advertisement for the Banner.
Taken to Marshall County
George E. Heltzel of near Benton was taken to Plymouth to answer a misdeameanor’ in court of Marshall county. He failed to pay support ‘money. ‘
WORK ON NEW PIKE
Expect to*Pour Concrete on Road No 6 at Corunna This ‘ Week ;
~ Roy L. Harris the contractor on state road Wo. 6 between Waterloo and Kendallville is pushtug the work as rapidly as possible and now has a power shovel working sixteen hours a day on the grade and he hopes to have the grade far enough advanced 80 that concrete can be poured on the road this week. This will be started at Corunna an dcontinued east.
All of the cemerit used on this projejet wil Icome fro mthe Wabash Portland cement factory at Stroh. °. A grzrveln washing pit is in operation on the Dilgard farm northwest of Waterloo and an excellent quality [of gravel is being taken from the pit and washed so as to meet the requirements of the state inspection department. Dam Is Being Strengthened . Exiensive repairs to the large dam of the Indiana & Miehigan Electric Co., at Elkhart avenue across the St. Joseph river in Elkhart have heen started.
The large concrete piers and walls Between the many gates have deteriorated to some extent since the dam was built in 1913 and are ‘to be repaired.
- The work is expected to take two months time with 75 men working. Large coffer dams will be installed so that the work may be done in the dry below the level of the river. -
Pennsy Trains Use N, Y. (. Tracks A freight wreck on the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad at Nevada O, 17 miles west of Crestline, 0., a division point Friday morning, stopped traffic on the road for several hours.
Several crack passenger trains—the Broadway Limited. Liberty Limited and Keystone Limited-—were detoured through Goshen over the main line of the New York Central. Over 1,500 feet of track was torn up in the crash and a number of cars demolishred. :
Lakes (Claim Four Vietims Four persons were drowned in northern Indiana while enjoying outings on the Fourth. Those. drowned were: : George Junior Grunewald 10 of Fort Wuyne Lalke George. ‘Walter Bodle 16 Decatur in Wabash river Markle. . Edward J. Schlichte 57 ° Connersville at Lake Wawasee. , Miss Marie Gehring 17 of Batesville Lake Wawasee.
Near-by Deaths
F. H. Houser 75 heart trouble Elkhart; W. W. Williams 50 liver trouble Hikhart; Rev.- George Lambert 85 Elkhart county; Mrs. Amos Bickel 70 asthma Elkhart; Mrs. Marie Stark 76 heart trouble Elkhart; R S. -Sto%cipher 29 pneumonia Columbia City; G. W. Gump 84 civil war wvet senility.
Bitten by Rattlesnake
While J. D. Craum of Loon Lake, Steuben county was picking peas on his farm he was bitten in the hand by a rattlesnake.. The wound was cauterized by a physician and it is thought there will be no serious results. The snake had five rattles and was a fair sized specimen.
Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Baby
J. M. Hughes colored age 2% years was struck and fatally injured by a hit-and-run driver Thursday afternoon the accident oceurring almost in front of the family residence in Fort Wayne. The motorist leaving his little vietim unconscious and dying in the roadway speeded away.
Unusual Auto Death
The door handle of a speeding car caught Joe Korval of Indiana Harbor in the side of the head and killed him instantly. ‘The car was driven by George Perry 19. So ter}'ific was the force of the blow that the handle broke off in Koval’s head.
Held in Steuben County Jail,
Jay Bowers residing near Stroh was arrested by Sheriff Minich of La-;G-ran‘ge charged with stealing some log chains belonging to Charles Lieb erenz of Steuben county. Bowers has been lodged in the Steuben county ljail to await trial. \ e
Drinking Kills Man.
Raymond Meredith 27 a resident of Milwaukee died at Fort Wayne while being removed to the Methodist hospital in the city ambulance. Heavy drinking is held responsible.
" Meeting of Board ~ Fred E. Weir and Mrs. Emmitt Caldwell members of Ligonier were in Kendallville this afternoon attend ing an important meeting of the Board of Guardians. ’ Two Men Killed Th ‘The boiler of & New York Central locomotive blew up near LaPorte Saturday afternoon killing the engineer and fireman. :
NEW MAIL RATES
Picture Posteard May Come Back Into Its Own, Resutl of Reduction in . U. S. Postage ,
The . picture post-card may come back into its own as a result of reductions in postal rat®s which went into effect July 1 postal -authorities believe. Cards may now again bg sent for one cent postage. , Other results of the new regulationg according to officials are expected ta be an increase in direct mail advertising, in the mailing of business reply cards and the elimination of large amount of mail sent now with insuf~ ficient postage. ' 3 The rate o ffirst class mail remaing unchanged two cents being charged for an ounce or fraction thereof. The rate on publications mailed by others than publishers will be one cent for‘ each two ounces, regardless of weight or distance.
With the exception of first and second class matter all other mailabld matter weighing more - than eight ounces is considered parcel post matter and is subject to the rate applic4 able' to that classification. .
The air mail rate is now 10 cents for each one-half ounce or fraction thereof. After August 1, the rate will be five cents for the first ounce or, fraction thereof and ten cents for each additional ounce or fraction thereof.
Meet Mr. Woli.
Arthur Wolf, of Ind"iafiapolis. vice president of the State Automobile Automobile assocition, will be in Ligonier, July 11 at 11:00 o’clock. - He will visit the local agency, the Kimmell Realty company, at their office in the Citizens Bank building. Mp.-Wolf was the founder of the State Automobile Insurance association and has been its vice president for several years. .
He is president of the Southern Insura.nce Exchange of Miami, Fla., and ‘lpresment of the State Mutual Insuriance association of Columbus, Ohio. | T.he-Sta_te Automohile Insurance association is conducting a “Special Wolt Month” during July in honor of Mr. Wolf. : - : ! The public is invited to meet Mr. iWolf.next Wednesday forenoon.- ~ Two Injured in ColliSion Mrs. Richard Louis and Mrs. Harold Gerke both of Fort Wayne are confined to the Kneipp sanitarium at Rome City suffering from injuriesy received one mile west of Rome City Wednesday forenoon when their light touring car was struck by a milk truek driven by Vern Deter of LaGrange. A third lady in the Fort Wayne car escaped injury. The light machine was demolished. )
Named Pierceton Pastor.
Dr. Charles H. Smith superintendent of the Goshen district North Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church has announced the appointment of Rev. Fred Hill M. E, pastor at Milford formerly of Wawaka to succeed the late Rev. Sherman Powell of Pierceton. Rev. Mr. Hill will assume his Pierceton duties July 15.
Three Orphan Boys Lose Lives
Searchers dragged the waters of Eel river today for the.bodies ot three boy inmates of an orphange atMexico who were drowned Friday night while swimming. The victims were Darwood Mofley 12 and Bruno Logman 14 both of Warsaw and Raymond Todd 11 Rochester.
Stricken With Ptomaine
Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Weir drove to Three Rivers Michigan Sunday and while there they learned that 14 out of 20 members of a gtrl’'s camp near that city were ill of ptomaine poisoning caused by eating canned beef. Some of the victims are in a dangerous condition.
Escape From State Reformatory
Clinford Miller and Robert Frederick prisoners at the }ndiana state reformatory at Pendleton escaped in a. bus belonging to the institution. Ng trace of them has been found.
Some Improvements
. Leßoy Kellam has a nice new sign and a new awning as additions to his Economy Chain Grocery and Market and the improvements add much to the appearance of the building.
Rochester Man Sauicide
- Domestic troubles were believed responsibile for the suicide in a hotel at Kokomo of Lafayette Waisner .71 wealthy farmer Rochester. He swallowed poison police said. :
Keys Found
L. M. Stage found a leather key case in front of his residence on Main street containing a number of keys. The case bears the name of Jesse Defendarfer and is at the Banner office. : oy
| Ligonier Defeated ~ The Columbia City Grays defeated the Ligonier Grays in the ball game here Sunday by a score of 7 to 5. Hérman Sack played with the visitors.
[ NEGRO WOMEN HURT Four Are Brought to HoSpital at Goshen Aifter Automobile Crash Near Churubuseo Four Wegro women Mrs. Elizabeth Dawson, Mrs. Minnie Stansbury, Mrs. Hattie Shelton and Mrs. Lydia Robin, son al lof Chicago were injured in an automobile accident near Churubusca
Wednesday evening and were taken to the Goshen hospital. Mrs. Dawson sustained a fractured rib and Mrs, Shelton a dislocated shoulder. The' other two were badly bruised but if was expected that all would be able to leave th ehospital soon. The party in a Packard car was returning to Chicago after attending a missionary conference at Fort Wayne The car was being driven by the Rev. B. G. Dawson husband of one of the injured women and pastor of the Queen Chapel church in Chicago. [ie lost control of the car when he clutchled at his hat which was caught by the wind and the car went into the ditch and overturned. The car was one of nine filled with Chiecago colored people who had attended the Fort Wayne meeting. The women were brought to Goshen in some of the other -cars. '
Christian Science Churches “Sacrament” was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ Scientist Sunday July 8. The Golden Text was from Psalms 116:12, 47, “What shall I render unto the Lord? 1 will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord.” | Among the citations which comprised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: ‘For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father” (Eph. 2:18). The Lesson-Sermon aiso included the following passages from the Christian Science - textbook “Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-
tures” by Mary Baker Eddy: “Thg truth is the centre of all religion. It commands sure entrance into the realm of Love. St. Paul wrote ‘Let
us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run witli patience the race that iy set before us:’ that is, let us put asidq material self and sense and seek the divine Principle and Science of all healing.” (p 20). - v .
Youthiu! Robbers in Jail.
A quick interchange of telephone messages between Chief Sawyer of ,Kendallv-ille sheriffs of three counties and New York Central railroad officials late Tuesday afternoon resulted in the arrest of John Walters age 18 of Asheville N. C., and William Stetson age 19 of Boston, Mass., for the theft of several articles from the Blaine Whitford and Fred - Becker homeg east of that city. The two young men were captured at Bryan 0., by sheriff’s deputies and Detective Eddie James of the N. Y. C. police department after Chief Sawyer had traced their route and wired ;-ahead to the ‘Ohio officials. A pair of shoes, a watch, and other valuables stolen at the two homes }_were found on the young men. They were bound over to Noble circuit court before Mayor Auman on a charge of burglary.
Lands Big Fish
When Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Jackson arrived in Ligonier from Cannelton Saturday they brought with them a cat fish captured by Mr. Jackson in the Ohio river which weighed an even forty pounds. The monster packed in ice lived nearly all the way while carried in the Jackson car. It was placed on exhibition at the Quality Meat Market. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were called bome by the serious illness of his mother Mrs. Thomas Jackson. Forest Rex who has a good position in Chicago came to his old home here on a visit. -
Hogs Attack Bey.
. Bobby 6 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Schintz was painfully injured when several hogs attacked him while he was watching them play about a wallow on a farm near Roancke. He received two bites on the arm and one on the leg. Several stitches were necessary to close the wounds. Sy : ]
Coniract Awarded
The contract for the construction of the Alva Galloway road in Turkey Creek township near the end of Lake Wawasee near the state fish hatchery was awarded Tuesday by the county commissioners to Roy Treesh of Mliford for $4,838.35. This is a gravel road not quite a mile in-length.
Visit the Shades Russell Smith and young lady friend of Peru-Ed Fisher and Miss Helen Smith visited Turkey Run and the Shades Sunday greatly enjoying the day. | o In Hands of Receiver. " The Wawasee Ceddr Chest Co., a Syracuse institution has gone into 'receivership Willis I. Dye of Kokomo was pamed as receiver in Circuit court Monday. ' : b
STATE CAPITAL HIT BY STORM
Rain and Wind Cause Heavy Damage While Motorists Are Marooned on the Streets :
The task of clearing up thousands of dollars damage caused by a storm Wednesday. night was taken up by workmen at Indianapolis. B . Trees were blown down, debris deposited on sidewalks and lawns covered with wind-blown objects by the storm. Sewers were unable to carry the volume of water which fell and dozens of motorists were marconed. Some contrived to walk to safety but others were rescued by fire and police squads. ' 0 Two thousand Indianapolis telephones were put out of use hy: the storm according to J. W. Hannon, general plant superintendent of thg Indiana Bell Telephone company. Two hundred poles were blown down therg and fifty over the state outside Indianapolis. : i According to word received from Fortville one man was injured. and roads were blocked by fallen trees in that vincinity. Fortville business houses were damaged and the town left in darkness by wind which wreek: ed wires.
~ Indiana’s Toll High. Automgebile accidents drownings and violence exacted a heavy death toll in Indiana while the state was celeprating Independence day. Twelve drownings were reported five persons were killed in automobile accidents, and three committed suicide. Only one death was attributed tq fireworks. There were two murders, one during a robbery and one in a brawl. Deaths due to drowning were. Miss Myrtle Lostutter 16, in White river at Indianapolis. : Carl Wilson, 11, in Lick Creek at Paoli. - ! : S
Robert Teeters 20 at Porter’'s camp on Flat rock river near Shelbyville. Walter Bodle 17 of Decatur at Markle in Wabash river. . Albert Morris 20, South Bend .in Dixon lake. : : Leroy Lynn 9, Jeffersonville in Qhio river. . L < George Grum’\wald»Jr., 11 at Lake George. g .
James Mattingly 16 of Bonneyvillg drowned in a lake. .. Louis Shears 50, of Vincennes, drowned in Wabash river. Cloyd Whitler 18 of Albion Illinois drowned in Lake Lawrence near Vincennes. . Deaths due to auto accidents: Mrs. Mary Hull North Manchester. Joseph Kavo 48 of East Chicago, killed in East Chicago. . Winford Newell 20 of Cayuga killed when machine he was riding in
struck a cow. : ; ‘Otis Smith 28 of Paducah Ky. killed near Stilesville. : Samuel Kruse 3 killed by automobile at Terre Haute. Deaths by suicide:” J. Stanley Moorse 77 of Washington township Boone county by taking poison. :
Robert Fleming of “Cleveland body found on Tiver bank at Fort Wayne and believed to have ended his life. Charles Clampitt 68 of Warren &y shooting. , Deaths to fireworks display: - Luther Stuckney 20 Hvansville when aerial bomb exploded. i Other deaths were: ‘ L. F./Barrackman 59 slain at his home in- Jeffersonville by a Tobbe and Jesse Voris 45 killed during a brawl at Terre Haute.
Fort Wayne Youth Shot ° Glen Smith 15-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs. Harry Smith of Fort Wayne is in a critical condition in a hospital there as the result of being accidentally shot with a .22 calibre rifle by a companion George Sappenfield who was examining a gun. The bullet pierced the boy’s head from templd to temple. Despite the nature of the injury the boy was conscious = for hours after the accident. e
Former Milford Man in Jail
Avery M. Groves formerly of Milford and Fort Wayne was among the men indicted by the federal grand jury at South Bend last week. He is charged with violation of the federal narcotic act.+ He was arrested there and is in jail unable to provide bond. Groves is said to have used the name of Dr. Charles F. Kaadt in forging prescriptions to obtain morphine. : : &
Make Long Drive.
Mrs. Jack Goodman two children and Mrs. Louis Carpenter who had been in their old home town on a visit left the home of their aunt Mrs. Will Casey last Thursday morning in the iGoodman car and when night came they had traveled 400 miles. i
Sylvester Cress Dies.
Sylvester Cress aged about 77 years died Saturday noon at the home of his daughter Mrs. John Zimmerman at Cosperville where he had been living\ The funeral was held at two o’clock this afternoon from the Cosperville church. : , ’ :
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VOL. 62 NO. 24A
LIGONIER ELECTRIC SHOP WILL REWIRE AND INSTALL NEW FIXTURES AT COURT HOUSE Petition For Claudon Highway in Perry Township Now in Hands of Appointed Viewers
Several matters were given attention at the July term of the commissioners’ court held last week. The petition- for the Claudon road in Perry township was refefred to Engineer Harry Mortorff, Jacob McLaughlin and Willis Gerver were named viewers and were making an inspection of the road today. - The contract. for road scrapers was let to the Burch corporation. C. E. EB_lgom Albion was awarded the tractor contract and the Adams Sales company Kendallville the contract to supply the county trucks. : Bridge project No. 5 was let to the Elkhart Bridge & Iron company. The contract to rewire and install new fixtures in the court house wag let to the Ligonier Electric Shop. In the matter of the H. R. Frick ditch Orange township, the report’ was aprpoved and referred to Charles Dawson drainage commissioner for construction. ‘ . J. Herbert Cockley was awarded thq contract to-furnish the supplies at the county infirmary. - :
: - Good WeStern Manager - James Good of Chicago has definitely accepted the western managership of -the Hoover-Curtis campaign and will leave at once to take up the duties of the position, it was announced at republican headquarters. " Good was manager of Hoover’s preconvention campaign and was offered the western mnagership soon after the Kansas City convention but he did not .at once accept, explaining that personal business might make it impossible for him to devote his entire time to the campaign. - Seme political observers interpreted his hesitancy as disappointment over his failure to receive the national managership.
Falls Out of Window.
Mrs. Mryva Roll, wife of F. M. Roll, residing a mile and a half north of Big Lake in Noble county, sustained a deep gash in her left arm below the elbow when raising a window at her home Wednesday.
The injured lady was raising a window 'when the glass in it smashed. Pieces of the broken glass struck her on the left arm, severing an artery, muscle and a tendon. She bled very freely and was taken to the offiffice of Dr. Luckey, where the flow of blood was. temporararily stpped. :
Boy Scouts Start Three Forests Indiana Boy Scouts are to start three SHO-acre forests this year at Jasonville Clay City and Linton on strip coal mining fields of the Maumee Collieries Co., according to advices to the United States Forest Service. The company will provide trees and toolg and will give quarters to the scouts while they are doing the work. The irst plantings will include 1,200 spruce which it is planned to market as Christmas trees. Half the proceeds of Christmas trees sales will go to the scouts.
~ Gasoline Taxes Show Increase ~ Gasoline taxes in Indiana increased $659,585.60 during the first six months of 1928 as compared with the same period in 1927 according to figures released. recently by the State Gasoline Tax Collector A. N. Bobbitt. - The June increase was $120,649 the fotal being $1,070,695. Refunds however were the largest ever the total refunded being $73,698 on 7,930 claims . The next largest month was September 1927 when $58,429 was paid on 3.260. :
Shoots Self in Head.
Harry R. Taylor, a farmer residing three miles southwest of Silver Lake, committed suicide late Saturday night by shooting himself in the head with a rifle. His body was found by his wife.and three children when .they returned home Sunday morning after spending the night at a lake nearby. .
Legion Convention.
The district convention of the American Legion of the Twelfth congressional district will be held in Columbia City August 2nd, it has been an‘nounced by Edgatr Lorber, commander of Captain Ray P. Harrisoff Post.
Couts Granted Divorce.
Cash A. Couts, the Ligonier barber, was granted a divorce from Lillian 9011 ts this morning by Judge Wrigley sitting as ‘special Judge. TFred E. Morrice, of Goshen, was attorney for the plaintiff. ety i